How to create a list of objects?

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user225312 picture user225312 · Jul 5, 2010 · Viewed 201.5k times · Source

How do I go about creating a list of objects (class instances) in Python?

Or is this a result of bad design? I need this cause I have different objects and I need to handle them at a later stage, so I would just keep on adding them to a list and call them later.

Answer

yanjost picture yanjost · Jul 5, 2010

Storing a list of object instances is very simple

class MyClass(object):
    def __init__(self, number):
        self.number = number

my_objects = []

for i in range(100):
    my_objects.append(MyClass(i))

# later

for obj in my_objects:
    print obj.number

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