How to create multiple instances of a class?

Gilles Lenfant glenfant at NOSPAM.bigfoot.com
Mon Mar 3 08:10:15 EST 2003


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> Hello,
>
> How do I create multiple instances of a class?
>
> Lets say I have :
>
>
> class Node():
>    def __init__(self,index):
>       print "Index : %d", index
>
>
> #creat multiple instances
>
> nodes = []
> for i in range (10):
>   nodes[i] = Node(i)      <---
>
>
> The above gives an error, saying something like arrayoutofbounds
> array.
>

"nodes" is an empty list. How could your script get any item from this list
? That's why you got the exception !

Change the line that inits "nodes" againts this :

nodes = [None for dummy in range(10)]

Or you could prefer :

for i in range(10):
    nodes.append(Node(i))

HTH

--Gilles







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