[Tutor] List of Objects?

[Lloyd Kvam]

class Rooms:
      def __init__(self, name, desc, exits):
             self.name = name
             self.desc = desc
             self.exits = exits

make_rooms = (
     ( 'theKitchen', 'kitchen with dishwasher', 2),
     ( 'thePorch', 'porch needs new screens', 3),
     ( 'theAtic', 'attic with pull down steps',1),
     )
avail_rooms = {}

for room in make_rooms:
     # create room instances and store them in avail_rooms dictionary
     # using the name of the room as the key
     avail_rooms[room[0]] = Rooms( room[0], room[1], room[2])

This will create Rooms using the list (really tuples) of values in make_rooms
and store them in the dictionary avail_rooms using the name as the key.
If you'd rather, you could make avail_rooms a list, but then you would need to
access rooms by index number.

I hope this helps.



Britt Green wrote:

> Say I have a class called Rooms that looks something like this:
> 
> class Rooms:
>      def __init__(self, name, desc, exits):
>             self.name = name
>             self.desc = desc
>             self.exits = exits
> 
> Now, what I'm trying to do is to create a dozen or so rooms. I know I
> could do it like this:
> 
> thePorch = Rooms(...)
> theKitchen  = Rooms(...)
> theAttic = Rooms(...)
> ...etc...
> 
> but this seems awfully tedious. It seems like creating an array of
> rooms would be much easier. I know that Python doesn't support arrays,
> and using a list would be the way to go. However, I'm not sure how to
> create a list of objects. Could anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Britt
> 
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