[Tutor] OOP Newbie Q

[Gregor Lingl]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Colburn" <aicolburn@yahoo.com>
To: <tutor@python.org>
> ... How can you create a new
> object without having to manually enter the source
> code each time?
> 
> a=BankAccount()
> b=BankAccount()
> c=BankAccount()
>  
> This would get a bit tedious after awhile! ...
> ... code like this wouldn't work for creating a new
> BankAccount object:
> 
> acctName=raw_input("Account name? ")
> acctName=BankAccount()
> 
> Any thoughts? Thanks! -- Al C.
> 

If you have to store an unknown number of objects
of any kind, you should think of using a compound data type
to store them, as are, fo instance lists or - maybe
in your case this would serve better - dictionaries:

accounts = {}
while   < some condition > :
    acctName=raw_input("Account name? ")
    accounts[acctName] = BankAccount()
    ....

so you could retrieve any account via
its name this way:

actualAccount = accounts[acctName]
...

Gregor