General Naming problems about pycopancore HOT 6 CLOSED

I don't quite understand. Didn't we call the instances of these classes (Cells, Society etc.) entities and this these lists are exactly what their name suggests - the entities that inherited from the respective class?

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The problem is the following: When calling the runner and letting it perform, it needs to iterate through all instances of a given class. This is done by:

for entity in oc.entities:

This is working and everything is fine until you have a process taxon, which does not have entities. So we just added the entities list to the process taxa as well, just to make it work. But: This is confusing, because now process taxa have a list that is called entities and we iterate through it (it only has one instatance included). So now, we are looking for a better naming, since objects or something like this is not very descriptive

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In the variable class in the private package there is the set_values function. This function also uses entities as input, but entities may also contain process taxa. This is not good. Apparently it is the same naming problem.

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For the problem @tillkolster mentioned: Why not simply give process and attribute entities that is an empty list? That would solve the problem.

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This problem is not about having a problem in the code so it doesn't work, but the naming. It does work, but we don't like to use names that don't fit...

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now changing to item in instances

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