How can I create objects in Python via iterating through a string?

Question

I read in a line from a file as such:

a b c d e f

With this string, I want to turn each letter into a new "user" in my user class. So what I want is something like:

for character in **the first line of the file**:
    if character != ' '
        user = user(character)

In other words, I would want something like "userA = user("a")", where user is a class I defined to take in a string as a parameter.

I'm having a hard time finding ways to iterate strings in Python with regard to a file, and then using the result to create an object.

Answer 1

You can't have an addition on the left hand side of an assignment (you cannot construct variale names that way). You should use a dictionary and the str.split method:

users = {} # note the plural, this is not 'user', but 'users'
for name in myString.split():
    users[name] = user(name)

You can also use a dictionary comprehension to achieve the same:

users = { name : user(name) for name in myString.split() }