Instantiating an object with the same name as a dynamically generated string in python?

Asked Jun 23 '16 at 15:30

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I have an class:

class Competitor(object):
      def __init__(self, name):
          self.name = name

I have an array of names:

names = ["john", "micheal", "adam"]

How can I run through this array and instantiate a Competitor with the same name in this array? So at the end I would like Competitor objects john, micheal and adam.

Will this work: trying to create a dict

hackers = {}
for name in names:
    hackers[name] = Competitor(name)

P.S. I tried looking through other questions but I didn't understand what they were trying to do/ wasn't sure if it was the same problem I had.

asked Jun 23 '16 at 15:30

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Have you tried it? – jusx Jun 23 '16 at 15:33
Your code /should/ work... that's exactly how you do it. – advance512 Jun 23 '16 at 15:34
Wouldn't it have been quicker to run the code that write up this question? – jonrsharpe Jun 23 '16 at 15:34
Yea, I thought of this while I was typing it out and thought it might help someone in the future. I'm trying it out rn – Username Jun 23 '16 at 15:37
yes it worked. hackers = {} for name in names: hackers[name] = Competitor(name) – Username Jun 23 '16 at 16:00

Instantiating an object with the same name as a dynamically generated string in python?

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