python - setting a user input to an instance

Question

I want to have a instance, which the user can access using an input()statement. Here are my three instances

water1 = waterType("squirtle", 50)
grass1 = grassType("bulbasaur", 50)
fire1 = fireType("charmander", 50)

Here's what I mean

class waterType(Pokemon):
  """creates a water pokemon"""
  pokemon_type = "water"
  damage = 10
  def __init__(self, name, hp):
    self.name = name
    self.hp = hp
  def growl(self):
    print("Splish Splosh")
  def attack(self):
    enemy = input("Who do you want to attack?")  <--- over here, I would enter "fire1"
    """attribute error occurs here"""
    if (enemy.pokemon_type == "fire"):
      global damage
      water1.damage = water1.damage*2
      enemy.hp = enemy.hp - water1.damage
      return enemy.hp
      print ("It was super effective!")
      print (enemy.hp)

If I take all the "enemy" and replace it with "fire1", everything works perfectly. However, then I would need to manually input every single fire-type instance.

If it is not possible to assign an instance to an input, is there any way to fix my code?

DMe · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-25 03:21:08Z

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What's happening right now is that you are assigning enemy to the string "fire1", rather than the variable.

This could be achieved as such:

enemy = eval(input("Who do you want to attack?"))

This should then reference the actual object called 'fire1'. Let me know if you need further help!

answered Apr 25, 2017 at 3:21

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Coolunized5 Over a year ago

Thank you, this is exactly what I wanted!

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