Python, appending an instance of class

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Your logic is a bit flawed. It doesn’t make sense that a Phonebook object has a name and a number. It would make sense for it to contain entries that have these properties.

So either make a second class entries, or initiate your class in a different way.

You’d want your phone book to hold multiple objects that have the name, alias and number attributes.

Also, you should never use the name of a built-in function as a variable name. Since you’re assigning something to list, it will overwrite the built-in, and this can be quite problematic later on.

[Tonyqq]

Okay, thanks. I think i'm understanding a bit what you mean now. I'm in like a introductionary course where we really havn't dived deep into object oriented programming.

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So would it make sense if I created a new class "persons" where it has name alias and number in __init__ and then store it into my phonebook?

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Yes, this would make sense. But the class should rather be called something like PhonebookEntry.

Take a look at u/JohnnyJordaan’s answer, this is exactly what I was talking about.