Hi hoping someone can help me, I’m quite new to this so not sure if I’m missing something obvious. I’ve got a Food class and then subclass for each category of food.

I want to have a dict as a variable in each class which records an attribute from each instance of the class. currently I’m trying to get the instance name and the price. So preferably each dict within a subclass would hold the names & prices of the instances for that class whilst I want the same dict in the parent class to hold the names & prices of the instances in each of the subclasses.

Is this possible? I assumed so with the way I understand inheritance to work, however with the attempts I have made up to this point, I have only been able to get it so that each class including the subclasses and the parent class all contain every instance name and price from every class.

This I don’t understand as I don’t see how the Burger class dict is accessing instances from the Desserts class dict?

Really hoping someone can assist as I’m at a loss of how to solve this one if it is doable within the classes.

class Food:

    prices = {}

    def __init__(self, product, price):
        self.product = product
        self.price = price
        self.prices[self.product] = [self.price]
    
class Burger(Food):
   pass

class Desserts(Food):
    pass

#--->burger menu
burger_option_1 = Burger("burger option 1", 15)
burger_option_2 = Burger("burger option 2", 20)
burger_option_3 = Burger("burger option 3", 25)

#--->dessert menu
dessert_option_1 = Desserts("dessert option 1", 15)
dessert_option_2 = Desserts("dessert option 2", 20)
dessert_option_3 = Desserts("dessert option 3", 25)

print(f"Food.prices: {Food.prices}")
print(f"Burger.prices: {Burger.prices}")
print(f"Desserts.prices: {Desserts.prices}")

Food.prices: {‘burger option 1’: [15], ‘burger option 2’: [20], ‘burger option 3’: [25], ‘dessert option 1’: [15], ‘dessert option 2’: [20], ‘dessert option 3’: [25]}
Burger.prices: {‘burger option 1’: [15], ‘burger option 2’: [20], ‘burger option 3’: [25], ‘dessert option 1’: [15], ‘dessert option 2’: [20], ‘dessert option 3’: [25]}
Desserts.prices: {‘burger option 1’: [15], ‘burger option 2’: [20], ‘burger option 3’: [25], ‘dessert option 1’: [15], ‘dessert option 2’: [20], ‘dessert option 3’: [25]}