[Tutor] Populating a list with object to be called by a class

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 20 September 2012 15:41, Ara Kooser <ghashsnaga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning,
>
>   I dug out some old code from 5 years ago to clean up and get in working
> order. It's a simple agent based model. I have class called Ant which
> contains all the ant-like functions.
>
> I have a list that tracks the ants but I did this is a very crude way. I
> basically copied and pasted everything in there like this:
>
> ants =
> [Ant("Red_1","Red","yellow_food"),Ant("Yellow_1","Yellow","red_food"),
>
> Ant("Red_2","Red","yellow_food"),Ant("Yellow_2","Yellow","red_food"),
>
> Ant("Red_3","Red","yellow_food"),Ant("Yellow_3","Yellow","red_food"),
>
> Ant("Red_4","Red","yellow_food"),Ant("Yellow_4","Yellow","red_food"),
>           .......]
>
> I couldn't figure out how to populate the list from a user input. Say if
> the user wanted 50 Red and 50 Yellow ants. So it's hardcoded at 500 which
> is not an elegant solution.
>
> I went back to work on this over the past couple of days but still can't
> figure out how to populate the list so I end up with Red_1 then Red_2 etc...
>
> What would be a good python way to do this?
>

How about this:

numants = 500

ants = []
for i in range(1, numants+1):
    ants.append(Ant('red_%i' % i, 'Red', 'yellow_food'))
    ants.append(Ant('yellow_%i' % i, 'Yellow', 'red_food'))

Oscar
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