Store a list of strings in one attribute

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I think I might not have explained my question clearly. I apologise for that. I will try again.

I have a parent class with certain attributes:

class Restaurant():
'This is the restaurant class'

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

Then I have a child class inheriting all the parent's attributes and adding a new one:

class IceCreamStand():

def __init__(self, *flavor):
    'Attributes of parent class initialised'
    self.flavor = flavor

Now I try printing a list of of flavours stored in the attribute flavor:

def desc_flavor(self):
    print('This Ice_Cream shop has ' + self.flavor + ' flavors')

flavor1 = IceCreamStand('Mango', 'Raspberry', 'Coffee', 'Vanilla')

If I use concat I get the message saying that the name is not defined.

My apologies for not explaining the problem correctly the first time and thanks for all the help.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '21 at 23:35

class IceCreamStand(Restaurant):
      def __init__(self,restaurant_name, cuisine_type):
          super().__init__(restaurant_name, cuisine_type)
         
      def describe_flavors(self,*flavors):
          print(f'{self.restaurant_name} has the following flavors:')
          for self.flavor in flavors:
              print(f'-{self.flavor}')
           
restaurant =IceCreamStand('DQ','ice cream')
restaurant.describe_restaurant()
restaurant.describe_flavors('Chocolate','Mango', 'Raspberry', 'Coffee', 'Vanilla')

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '20 at 14:19

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Try using the below code:

def __init__(self, *attribute1):
    self.atributte1 = attribute1

answered Jul 02 '20 at 14:19

Astik Gabani

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 02 '20 at 14:25

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Use Arbitrary argument list. See this answer.

Example:

li = []
def example(*arg):
    li = list(arg)
    print(li)

example('string1', 'string2', 'string3')

answered Jul 02 '20 at 14:25

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score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 21 '23 at 11:51

As far I know you are doing exercise of chapter 9 from the book of Python Crash Course. This is the code which I did as its part of another exercise. Hope this helps you.

class Restaurant():
"""A simple attempt to model a restaurant."""

    def __init__(self, restaurant_name, cusisine_type):
        self.name = restaurant_name
        self.type = cusisine_type

    def describe_restaurant(self):
        print("Restaurant name is " + self.name.title() + ".")
        # print(self.name.title() + " is a " + self.type + " type restaurant.")

    def open_restaurant(self):
        print(self.name.title() + " is open!")


class IceCreamStand(Restaurant):
"""Making a class that inherits from Restaurant parent class."""

    def __init__(self, restaurant_name, cusisine_type):
        super().__init__(restaurant_name, cusisine_type)
        self.flavor = 'chocolate'

    def display_flavors(self):
        print("This icrecream shop has " + self.flavor + " flavor.")


# create an instance of IceCreamStand
falvors = IceCreamStand('baskin robbins', 'icecream')

# print("My restaurant name is: " + falvors.name)
# print("Restaurant is which type: " + falvors.type)
falvors.describe_restaurant()
falvors.open_restaurant()

# Calling this method
falvors.display_flavors()

Store a list of strings in one attribute

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