On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: > I have a program that generates many instances of a class with an attribute > self.x = random.gauss(10, 2). So each instance has a different value for > self.x. This is what I want. Now I want to make a class that starts my > program and sets the attributes. > class people: > def __init__(self, size) > self.size = size > class makepeople: > def __init__(self, randomsize) > self.rsize = randomsize > self.allpeople = [] > def makethem(): > for x in range(1,100): > p+str(x) = people(self.rsize) > allpeople.append(p+str(x)) > so what I would like to have work is set the attribute of makepeople so that > when it is used to make instances of people each will have a different size. > listofp = makepeople(random.guass(100, 2))
Here you are calling makepeople() and passing it a single random number that will be used for all people. You need to call random.gauss() in the loop. > listofp.makethem() > I would then what listofp.allpeople to be a list of people with different > sizes. The above code does not work, I don't think it does anyway. > I hope this makes sense, I am sure there is a term for what I am trying to > do but I don't know it. I would just make a function that creates the list of people. There is no need to put it in a class. For example, def make_people(): return [people(random.gauss(100,2)) for x in range(1, 100)] # Note this only makes 99 people Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
