Printing Multiple Variables of a Python Class

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For Code:

class Car(object):
   def __init__(self, make, model, year, color, engine_type):
     self.make = make
     self.model = model
     self.year = year
     self.color = color
     self.engine_type = engine_type

main():
  car1 = Car('Ford', 'Mustang', '2001', 'Red')
  print car1.make, car1.model, car1.year, car1.color

Is there a better/shorter way to print multiple variables (but not all of them such as using vars() or __dict__) from a class? Something like...

print car1.[make, model, year, color]

but that actually works?

You can do: print car1.make, car1.model, car1.year, car1.color — zengr
– zengr, Commented Aug 14, 2014 at 1:20

mipadi · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-14 01:23:24Z

2

You could do something tricky like this:

attrs = ['make', 'model', 'year', 'color']
print " ".join(map(lambda attr: getattr(car1, attr), attrs))

I don't know if that's any better than what you have, though.

answered Aug 14, 2014 at 1:23

mipadi

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Ross J Phillips Over a year ago

Sounds like there's no shorthand for it, but the above code taught me lots thanks! Never have seen lambda or map before, I've only been coding for about 3 months

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