Instantiating multiple objects in python

Question

I'm trying to instantiate multiple objects related to the simple class defined below:

class lancamento():
 def __init__ (self,date,description,value):
 self.date=date
 self.description=description
 self.value=value

I'd like to use a for loop, which reads a csv file and sets a value to each of the class properties:

a=lancamento(input_a,input_b,input_c)

I printed the following in order to check the result:

print(a.description)

and, of course, the printed result is the one set in the last loop for iteration...

I'd like to instantiate different objects inside this for loop...

• Boseong Choi: You can make list of objects or something like that.
• alan.elkin: Please don't forget to upvote all working answers, and accept the one you like the most. Probably you know this, but this is to let the community know which answers were useful and to reward the people for their time and effort as well ;) See this meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/ and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173399/

Answer 1

Instantiating via a loop as you suggested is correct. Below is a list comprehension that will do this for you and then 'a' will be the container for your instances

results = # "SELECT date, description, value FROM DB ..."
a = [lancamento(r[0], r[1], r[2]) for r in results]
for x in a:
 print(x.description)

Answer 2

You didn't show your for loop code, but I'm guessing you are overwritting the name of your instance at every iteration. You could e.g. create an empty list just before the loop and append the recently created object to that list.

• Nunes: Yes, indeed i've been overwrititing the name of the instance