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I am trying to initialize a class within a function that has the name of the soon to be created object passed into the function like so....

def createPlayer(name):
    name = Player(name1,0)

Where the name variable in createPlayer(name) is the name of the initialized class as seen in name = Player(name1,0)

Currently python does not recognize that the "name" variable being passed into the function is the same as the one creating the instance of the class Player()

Is this possible?

I would like to not have to use a dispatcher as mentioned here.

This is my first post to stackoverflow I don't know all the syntax standards of the community so any pointers would be appreciated.

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  • Is this something you have done in other languages and are wondering if you can do it in python? How would you use such a class in the rest of your program? It is not clear the usefulness of this. Could you explain further? Commented Jul 6, 2021 at 1:32
  • It's not entirely clear what you want to accomplish, but perhaps read nedbatchelder.com/text/names.html before clarifying your question. Commented Jul 6, 2021 at 1:34
  • The closest I can imagine to what you are trying to do here is you should create a dictionary of all your generated classes and use the name as the key to access the class objects. Commented Jul 6, 2021 at 1:34
  • I am trying to have user input create a new instance of the class named after the name the user inputs, this is most likely not the optimal way to accomplish such task but I was curious if python could do it. Commented Jul 6, 2021 at 2:27
  • my objective is similar to this: stackoverflow.com/questions/15098845/… Commented Jul 6, 2021 at 2:32
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