help needed with class and method confusion

[Pierre Quentel]

If I understand the problem, you have a planet and a number of moons turning
around it. So you should define two different classes, Planet and Moon

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class Moon:

    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

class Planet:

    def __init__(self,names):
        self.moons = []
        for name in names:
            m=Moon(name)
            setattr(self, name, m)
            self.moons.append(m)

satellites = ["Io", "Europa", "Ganymeade"]
Jupiter = Planet(satellites)
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You'd better leave the satellite names outside of the __init__ method of
Planet,
in case you happen to work on another planet

Hope this helps,
Pierre