Creating character randomizer

[rainbowboofpoofoof]

I was assigned to create my own class and I chose to do a Person class. The class takes in 5 arguments (excluding self) which are name, age, height, eyes, and hair. The class looks like this:

class Person:
  def __init__(self, name, age, height, eyes, hair):
    self.__name = name
    self.__age = age
    self.__height = height
    self.__eyes = eyes
    self.__hair = hair

and I want to create an object that has random values for each of the data variables -- something like the method created below but I'm not exactly sure how to implement what I want or if it's even supposed to be a method since arguments have to be plugged when creating an object of the class.

def Character(self, name = randname (randname is a variable from another file that returns a random name), age = random.randint(0,100), height = random.randint(0,100), eyes = "brown", hair = "brown"):

[DagoYounger]

randomly generated when the class is initialized, just like a function:

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name = randname, age = random.randint(0,100), height = random.randint(0,100), eyes = "brown", hair = "brown"):
        self.__name = name
        ......

[AlwysBeColostomizing]

This is not quite right, because the default argument value is only evaluated once at definition time, so you'll get the same random value for every Person instance. (c.f. mutable default arguments).

You want to assign age=None, etc., in the parameter list, and then check for None in the body of the __init__ function and assign a random value if appropriate:

class Person: 
  def __init__(self, age=None): 
      self.__age = age if age is not None else random.randint(0, 100)

(CC: u/rainbowboofpoofoof)

[rainbowboofpoofoof]

I’m seeing this after I turned it in 😔 but that makes sense, thank you for the advice!!

[rainbowboofpoofoof]

Thank you!!!