I have a Category class which has different names for each categories, the names of the categories can be unknown, good and bad, all categories share the same behavior so i don't want to create sub classes for each type of category, the problem comes when i am trying to create the different categories in this way:
Category.GOOD
This statement should return a category object with his name setting to 'good' so i try the following:
class Category(object):
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
@property
def GOOD(self):
category = Category(name='good')
return category
@property
def BAD(self):
category = Category(name='bad')
return category
Then i created and use the category with the following output:
c = Category.GOOD
c.name
AttributeError: 'property' object has no attribute 'name'
Realizing that this doesn't work i try a java like approach:
class Category(object):
GOOD = Category(name='good')
BAD = Category(name='bad')
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
What i get here is a undefined name "Category" error, so my question is if there is a pythonic way to create a category object like this.