Python creating different objects in current Class

Question

class Family:
 def __init__(self, number_of_family_members):
 self.members = self.create_members(number_of_family_members)
 def create_members(self, number):
 family_people = []
 for i in range(number):
 family_people.append(Human())
 #family_people.append(self.Human())
 return family_people
class Human:
 def __init__(self):
 self.exists = True

I plan on having Family Objects that will contain Human Objects. I am not sure if I am (1) correctly calling the method "create_members" (2) not sure how to initiate Humans

*I am currently learning about Objects so I wasn't sure if this was correct. Thanks!

• Kasravnd: Can you explain more about what you are going to do? and what's wrong with your code?
• shuttle87: Of the 2 lines in create_members family_people.append(Human()) this is the correct way to do it.
• soungalo: The commented line won't work since you don't have a Human() method in the Family class.
• Greg: Your code looks fine to me as well, the suggestion is that if you are going to call the create_members function on init and you won't need it as a separate method, you can just embed the current code in the init function
• amay20: thank you for your help!

Answer 1

What's the issue? Your code is fine. You can inspect it on the terminal to see what is happening. You can also simplify the initialization code.

class Family:
 def __init__(self, number_of_family_members):
 self.members = [Human()] * number_of_family_members
class Human:
 def __init__(self):
 self.exists = True
>>> f = Family(5)
>>> f.members
[<__main__.Human instance at 0x1102ca560>, <__main__.Human instance at 0x1102ca560>, <__main__.Human instance at 0x1102ca560>, <__main__.Human instance at 0x1102ca560>, <__main__.Human instance at 0x1102ca560>]