Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
"gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
to create a herd of them. I want to simulate motion of individual
gazelles, but I don't want to have to go through and manually update
the position for every gazelle (there could be upwards of 50). I was
planning to create an array of these gazelle classes, and I was going
to iterate through it to adjust the position of each gazelle. That's
how I'd do it in C, anyway. However, Python doesn't support pointers
and I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
-Ryan
10  1830 
datamonkey.r... @gmail.com wrote:
>
However, Python doesn't support pointers
As I understand it, every name in Python is a pointer.
class Gazelle(object) :
def __init__(self):
self.x = 0
g_list =[]
for x in range(10):
g_list.append(G azelle())
for g in g_list:
g.x = 10
print g_list[2].x
On Apr 20, 3:58 am, datamonkey.r... @gmail.com wrote:
Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
"gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
to create a herd of them. I want to simulate motion of individual
gazelles, but I don't want to have to go through and manually update
the position for every gazelle (there could be upwards of 50). I was
planning to create an array of these gazelle classes, and I was going
to iterate through it to adjust the position of each gazelle. That's
how I'd do it in C, anyway. However, Python doesn't support pointers
and I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
-Ryan
Something like:
import random
class Gazelle(object) :
def __init__(self):
self.pos = 0, 0
# create a list of instances
gazelles= [ Gazelle() for x in range(5)]
# update gazelle positions
deltaxmin, deltaxmax = -100, +100
deltaymin, deltaymax = -100, +100
for g in gazelles:
g.pos = (g.pos[0] + random.randint( deltaxmin, deltaxmax),
g.pos[1] + random.randint( deltaymin, deltaymax) )
The above is untested by the way.
- Paddy.
On Thursday 19 April 2007, da************* @gmail.com wrote:
Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
"gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
to create a herd of them. I want to simulate motion of individual
gazelles, but I don't want to have to go through and manually update
the position for every gazelle (there could be upwards of 50). I was
planning to create an array of these gazelle classes, and I was going
to iterate through it to adjust the position of each gazelle. That's
how I'd do it in C, anyway. However, Python doesn't support pointers
and I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
Actually, Python _only_ supports pointers: they're the names of objects. So
for example, if I write x = Gazelle(...), then I create the name "x" that
points to an instance of Gazelle. The storage for the instance is
managed 'magically' by Python. If I were then to say "y = x", I'd also have
a name "y" that points to the same instance.
It's also worth noting that everything, including ints, strings and lists are
objects as well. Because of this, a pointer to an object is the only storage
class in python. Therefore, a name can point to any object of any type.
As a result, an "array" in Python, which is commonly a list, is simply a list
of pointers. They can point to strings, ints, other lists or anything. And
because they store pointers, they can actually include themself!
To demonstrate:
>>a=[1,'a',[1,2,3]]
for i in a: print i
1
a
[1, 2, 3]
>>a.append(a)
for i in a: print i
1
a
[1, 2, 3]
[1, 'a', [1, 2, 3], [...]]
Python's clever enough to not print out the circular reference.
Finally, it's worth pointing out that in a language like this, where there are
no arbitrary pointers (as there are in C), the pointer-to-object is called a
reference. I just used "pointer" because you did ;).
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:58:35 -0700, datamonkey.ryan wrote:
Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
"gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
to create a herd of them. I want to simulate motion of individual
gazelles, but I don't want to have to go through and manually update
the position for every gazelle (there could be upwards of 50). I was
planning to create an array of these gazelle classes, and I was going
to iterate through it to adjust the position of each gazelle. That's
how I'd do it in C, anyway. However, Python doesn't support pointers
and I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.
First method: create 1000 different gazelles:
list_of_beastie s = []
for i in xrange(1000): # create 1000 beasties
args = (i, "foo", "bar") # or whatever
list_of_beastie s.append(Gazell e(args))
Second method: create 1000 different gazelles by a slightly different
method:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle((i, "foo", "bar")) for i in xrange(1000)]
Third method: create 1000 copies of a single gazelle:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle(args)] * 1000
# probably not useful...
Forth method: create identical gazelles, then modify them:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle(default s) for i in xrange(1000)]
for i, beastie in enumerate(xrang e(1000)):
list_of_beastie s[i] = modify(beastie)
--
Steven D'Aprano
These methods work. I didn't think I could create a list of objects
like that, however, I stand corrected.
Thanks for your quick (and helpful) responses!
On Apr 19, 11:22 pm, Steven D'Aprano
<s...@REMOVEME. cybersource.com .auwrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:58:35 -0700, datamonkey.ryan wrote:
Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
"gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
to create a herd of them. I want to simulate motion of individual
gazelles, but I don't want to have to go through and manually update
the position for every gazelle (there could be upwards of 50). I was
planning to create an array of these gazelle classes, and I was going
to iterate through it to adjust the position of each gazelle. That's
how I'd do it in C, anyway. However, Python doesn't support pointers
and I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.
First method: create 1000 different gazelles:
list_of_beastie s = []
for i in xrange(1000): # create 1000 beasties
args = (i, "foo", "bar") # or whatever
list_of_beastie s.append(Gazell e(args))
Second method: create 1000 different gazelles by a slightly different
method:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle((i, "foo", "bar")) for i in xrange(1000)]
Third method: create 1000 copies of a single gazelle:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle(args)] * 1000
# probably not useful...
Forth method: create identical gazelles, then modify them:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle(default s) for i in xrange(1000)]
for i, beastie in enumerate(xrang e(1000)):
list_of_beastie s[i] = modify(beastie)
--
Steven D'Aprano
da************* @gmail.com wrote:
Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
"gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
to create a herd of them. I want to simulate motion of individual
gazelles, but I don't want to have to go through and manually update
the position for every gazelle (there could be upwards of 50). I was
planning to create an array of these gazelle classes, and I was going
to iterate through it to adjust the position of each gazelle. That's
how I'd do it in C, anyway. However, Python doesn't support pointers
and I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
You don't want a herd of the Platonic type of gazelle, you want a herd
of individual instances of the class of gazelle. No problem.
Something like
class Gazelle(object) :
def __init__ (self, color, position)
self.color = color
self.position = position
# ...
herdsize = 30
herd = []
for i in xrange (herdsize)
color, position = function_to_sup ply_a_gazelle's _attributes()
herd.append (Gazelle (color, position)
# ...
while true:
for gazelle in herd:
do_something_to (gazelle)
>
-Ryan
<da************ *@gmail.comwrot e:
Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
It looks you don't really want what you're saying: you appear to want a
list of INSTANCES of one class, *NOT* a list of CLASSES. E.g.:
class Gazelle(object) : pass
class Zip(Gazelle): pass
class Zop(Gazelle): pass
class Zap(Gazelle): pass
thelist = [Zip, Zop, Zap]
Now THIS would be a list of classes, but contextual clues in your text
appear to suggest that you do NOT want this, and may be deeply mistaken
about what "a list of classes" means. I'd rather get confirmation of
that point before I address your question; if you use totally,
irretrievably wrong terminology, miscommunicatio n's likely:-(.
Alex
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
>
Forth method: create identical gazelles, then modify them:
list_of_beastie s = [Gazelle(default s) for i in xrange(1000)]
for i, beastie in enumerate(xrang e(1000)):
list_of_beastie s[i] = modify(beastie)
Nope, 'sorry, that's Python a's well. Forth u'se's rever'se Poli'sh
notation.
regard's
"Steve
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On Apr 19, 9:18 pm, Paddy <paddy3...@goog lemail.comwrote :
>
# create a list of instances
gazelles= [ Gazelle() for x in range(5)]
Nice. I knew there had to be a way to use a list comprehension, but I
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