[Tutor] advice on creating and working with a complex datastructure

[Alan Gauld]

"Serdar Tumgoren" <zstumgoren at gmail.com> wrote 

> Aha, okay, the multiple classes approach makes sense.  But would these
> be nested classes, 

No although they would probably have attributes containing
the related lists. Thus Race might have a list of Candidates.
And Candidate would have a list of Committees etc.

> perhaps inheriting attributes from their parent
> classes? E.g.:

I do not think any of these meet the criteria for inheritance. 
None of them "is a" kind of any of the others.

> class Race
> 
>    class Candidate
> 
>        class Committee
> 
>            class Filing

I don;t like the use of Filing for a class name, it sounds like 
a collection and in Python we don;t usually need to crteate 
collection classes, we can just use a standard collection type. 
Maybe File would be better although it could be confused 
with a comuter file... Maybe Record would be best?

HTH

Alan G.