Hi, I'm trying to instantiate a class object repeated times, dynamically for as many times as are required, storing each class object in a container to later write out to a database. It kind of looks like what's needed is a two-dimensional class object, but I can't quite conceptualize how to do that.
A simpler approach might be to just store class objects in a dictionary, using a reference value (or table row number/ID) as the key. In the real-world application, I'm parsing row, column values out of a table in a document which will have not more than about 20 rows, but I can't expect the document output to leave columns well-ordered. I want to be able to call the class objects by their respective row number. A starter example follows, but it's clear that only the last instance of the class is stored. I'm not quite finding what I want from online searches, so what recommendations might Python users make for the best way to do this? Maybe I need to re-think the approach? Thanks, Brian class Car(object): def __init__(self, Brand, Color, Condition): self.Brand = Brand self.Color = Color self.Condition = Condition brandList = ['Ford', 'Toyota', 'Fiat'] colorList = ['Red', 'Green', 'Yellow'] conditionList = ['Excellent', 'Good', 'Needs Help'] usedCarLot = {} for c in range(0, len(brandList)): print c, brandList[c] usedCarLot[c] = Car usedCarLot[c].Brand = brandList[c] usedCarLot[c].Color = colorList[c] usedCarLot[c].Condition = conditionList[c] for k, v in usedCarLot.items(): print k, v.Brand, v.Color, v.Condition >>> 0 Ford 1 Toyota 2 Fiat 0 Fiat Yellow Needs Help 1 Fiat Yellow Needs Help 2 Fiat Yellow Needs Help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list