Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Replying to the list.. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Steve Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry it took me so long to respond; I haven't been able to afford any time > to such leisurely pursuits as programming. > I'm not cc'ing this to the Mailing list, becuase I fear it may get a little

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-26 Thread Richard Lovely
mple assignment (x=y) outside of the class? On 9/25/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:24:31 -0400 > From: "Steve Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Tutor] How to replace instances > To: tutor@python.org > Message-ID

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Steve Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's what I was trying (incorrectly) to achieve the above example. > but how can I do this for an arbitrary number of objects in a list? > > I have a list x = [a,b,c] and a list y = [d,e,f], both filled with > instance o

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Steve Collins
On 9/25/08, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Steve Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> However, some of the instances refer explicitly to other instances >> instances. It's obvious why this causes problems. It occurred to me to >> simply replace the i

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Steve Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, some of the instances refer explicitly to other instances > instances. It's obvious why this causes problems. It occurred to me to > simply replace the instances with the ones in the un-pickled list, but I > don't

[Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Steve Collins
I've written a save/load function for a simple program using cPickle. Upon saving, a master list, to which all instances are added in their __init__, is pickled. when the program starts, if the user wishes to load, a variable "load" is set to one, and the pickled list is loaded. All the classes eit