Question

I have a simple class that stores information about people attending a conference:

class Attendee:
    def __init__(self, fName, lName, email):
        self.fName = fName
        self.lName = lName
        self.email = email

I am attempting to create Attendee objects using a combination of two user-inputed strings:

#get inputs from user:
fName = input("First name: ")
lName = input("Last name: ")
    .....

newObjectName = fName[0] + lName

newObjectName = Attendee(fName, lName, email)

Obviously this will not work – but you get the idea I’m shooting for.
I know in C# you can create a new object by:

Attendee newObjectName = new Attendee(fName, lName, email)

How would this translate to Python?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to have variable variable names, then you want a different data structure instead. For example, a dictionary works well:

attendees = {}
newObjectName = fName[0] + lName
attendees[newObjectName] = Attendee(fName, lName, email)