I need to use __getitem__
for all 7 arguments in my class but __getitem__
won’t let me so I tried to use a tuple
but I keep getting this error:
TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable int object
What should I do?
def __getitem__(self, key): name,author,category,Isbn_number,printing_house,date,number_of_order = key return (self.name,self.author,self.category,self.Isbn_number,self.printing_house,self.date,self.number_of_order)
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Answer
To make a getitem that returns the contents of each of the member variables given a key that is the same as the name of that member, you could have the class store the information in a dict and have your get_item return from that dict. E.g.:
class Book(): def __init__(self, name='Jud', author='Jill', category='YA'): self.elements = {'name': name, 'author': author, 'category': category} def __getitem__(self, key): return self.elements[key]
Then with an instance of the class you should be able to do things like:
book = Book() book['name'] book['author']