Assignments and Variable Substitution

[brad]

I'd like to do something like this:

var = '123'
%s = [], %var

So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
well. The list assignments are created during a loop.

Thanks,
Brad

[srage]

On Aug 13, 1:00 pm, brad <[e-mail]:

I'd like to do something like this:

var = '123'
%s = [], %var

So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
well. The list assignments are created during a loop.

Thanks,
Brad

You probably want to use a dictionary to store your lists... code
like:

variableDict = {}
variableDict[var] = ['value1', 'value2', 'value3']

[Evan Klitzke]

On 8/13/07, brad <by*******@gmail.comwrote:

I'd like to do something like this:

var = '123'
%s = [], %var

So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
well. The list assignments are created during a loop.

You can't assign a variable whose name is 123, but you can do this
sort of thing with setattr.

--
Evan Klitzke <ev**@yelp.com>

[Steve Holden]

Evan Klitzke wrote:

On 8/13/07, brad <by*******@gmail.comwrote:

>I'd like to do something like this:

var = '123'
%s = [], %var

So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
well. The list assignments are created during a loop.

You can't assign a variable whose name is 123, but you can do this
sort of thing with setattr.

And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'?

regards
Steve
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[Ali]

On Aug 14, 12:45 am, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

Evan Klitzke wrote:

On 8/13/07, brad <[e-mail]:

I'd like to do something like this:

var = '123'
%s = [], %var

And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'?

.... and thus continues the search for private variables in Python.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Ali a écrit :

On Aug 14, 12:45 am, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

>Evan Klitzke wrote:

>>On 8/13/07, brad <[e-mail]:
I'd like to do something like this:
var = '123'
%s = [], %var

>And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'?

... and thus continues the search for private variables in Python.

I must be tired, but I don't see what this has to do with "private"
variables.

But if you want private variables, it's quite easy: prefix their names
with a single underscore.

[brad]

Steve Holden wrote:

Evan Klitzke wrote:

>On 8/13/07, brad <by*******@gmail.comwrote:

>>I'd like to do something like this:

var = '123'
%s = [], %var

So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
well. The list assignments are created during a loop.

You can't assign a variable whose name is 123, but you can do this
sort of thing with setattr.

And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'?

Just an example.