Lists of attributes

[Bruce Eckel]

>Anyway, why can't you just stick each instance in a global
variable
>(preferably a dictionary or dictionary-like object)? If you really
like the
>attribute assignment syntax, you can make a class that allows
element
>reference both through attributes (yuck) and through item indexing
.

Right, missed that. Now it's even cleaner:
import random
rgen = random.Random()
flwrs = [Gladiolus(),Runuculus(),Chrysanthemum()]
flowers = [rgen.choice(flwrs) for i in range(10)]

This produces a random selection of references to only three
objects.

I'd still like to not have to explicity enumerate flwrs. I may play
with Tim's suggestion:
    class Flower(object): 
	...
and
    Flower.__subclasses__()

Except that I haven't been able to locate any actual information on
how to get '__subclasses__()' to work.


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