generic class for everything?

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

> (sorry for replying directly, but it seems that the news server of my 
> provider has some problem today... Would you please forward this message 
> to clp ?)
> 
> Using a single large string may be the worth solution here (IMHO). I 
> would not appreciate having to debug such a code !-)
> 
> One solution might be using a list of strings (or anything else you 
> need). This is usually cleaner and faster than concatening and parsing 
> strings.
> 
> Another solution could be to dynamically append attributes to the instance.
> 
> Now reading your 'big string', it appears that your 'events' are all 
> composed of two values : what part of the car is affected, and how it is 
> affected. So it's something like a key/value pair.
> 
> Have you considered using a dictionnary :
> events = {"fule": 0,
>            "fule_light": 1,
>            "power_out" : -100,
>            "electrical_out" : -100,
>            "lights : 0}
> 
> where each key might also be the name of an attribute in the 'car' class
> 
> Now you can iterate on the key/value pair to set the attributes of the 
> car instance :

Yes I had thought that,  How can I automatically treat the "key" as a
function or variable?  

Rather than do the eqivalant of "if somedict has key "x" then
function_x(somedict[x])" i would rather do something like:

for key in somedict: key(value)

But am not sure how to get there?


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