[Tutor] How to generate instance names?

[Alan Gauld]

> I am new to object-oriented programming, and have a basic question.
> How can I generate an object name when creating an instance of a
> class, rather than hard-coding the name at creation?

This is nearly always a bad idea, it's better to use a dictionary.
See my tutorial OOP topic for an example of this.

There was also an extended thread on this a few weeks ago
(and indeed almost every month! ;-)

Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
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