Question

I’m trying to create a game for my little sister. It is a Virtual Pet sort of thing and the Pet has toys to play with.

I created a class Toy and want to create a function, getNewToy(name, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5).

I want this function to create a new instance of the class Toy, and I want the function to be able to be called multiple times each time creating a new instance.

In my experience you create an instance with:

class Toy:
    def __init__(self, name, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5):
        pass

myToy = Toy(myToy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

then to use methods from the class with:

myToy.method1()

Seeing as I want to have the ability to have multiple toys, each with a playWith() method I want the instance to reflect the name of the Toy each time one is called.

I want the instance to be different each time I call the method getNewToy(,...) and the instance to reflect the name.

Answer 1

Given your edit i assume you have the class name as a string and want to instantiate the class? Just use a dictionary as a dispatcher.

class Foo(object):
    pass

class Bar(object):
    pass

dispatch_dict = {"Foo": Foo, "Bar": Bar}
dispatch_dict["Foo"]() # returns an instance of Foo