Most efficient way to assign different things to objects made from the class?

I come across problems like this a lot, but here's an example.

Let's say I'm making a main menu for a game. There are 5 buttons, play, settings, level select, tutorial, and more from this developer. I want to use the same class for each of these buttons. Each of them will have different text to display, positions, and colors. I could do the time consuming if statements, but is there any faster way?

def __init__(self):      self.button=button      if self.button=="play":          self.text="play"      elif self.button=="settings":          self.text="settings"         #and so on...  

The method I've been using right now is lists.

text=["play","settings","tutorial"]  colors=[black,white,red]    for i in range(3):      button=button_class()      button.text=text[i]      button.color=colors[i]    

It's been working pretty good, but I still haven't done anything that involves a lot more specific data for each class. I was wondering if anyone has any insight on this? This is Python after all, I'm confident there's a simple solution to this. Oh and if it's any help, I'm using pygame.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65588587/most-efficient-way-to-assign-different-things-to-objects-made-from-the-class January 06, 2021 at 08:35AM