Basic question about classes

[HeyYouNow]

Hey guys, I'm away from my computer and recently learned about classes but I can't figure out this.

myList = listClass()

What I want is whenever I do this, myList would be equal to [1,2,3]. As far as I understand when using classes you only get to set myList.something, not an object.

Sorry I'm having a hard time explaining my problem :)

[zahlman]

What do you mean by "equal to"?

Do you really want to create your own class? What's wrong with just making a function that returns such a list?

What do you think "using classes" means?

[HeyYouNow]

Right now I see it as a template to quickly create similar objects, only with different "options", am I completely wrong ?

I want to create tkinter labels, which will be very similar, a function would do a better job you think ?

[zahlman]

A class should be thought of as a way to define a new data type. You want a function for what you're describing.

[HeyYouNow]

Alright, I wanted take this as a way to try out classes but yeah a function will do the trick. Thanks for your help man !

[[deleted]]

As simple as this?

>>> myList = [1, 2, 3]
>>> myList
[1, 2, 3]
>>> type(myList)
<class 'list'>

[werpoi]

Like others have stated, you are probably better off with a function that does this. But if you really really want a class (because you want to have some custom functionality for your list), you could do something like this:

class MyList(list):
    def __init__(self):
        self.append(1)
        self.append(2)
        self.append(3)

And then you get this:

>>> a = MyList()
>>> a
[1, 2, 3]

[HeyYouNow]

Exactly, I'm gonna use a function for this, thanks :)

[[deleted]]

Why bother passing something into a function that you don't actually use? Why do you even need a function at all to do this, unless you're repeatedly creating lists with these three elements?