John Salerno wrote: > (the variables would store whatever information is entered in the text > boxes to the right of each label. I'm doing it this way so I can write a > loop to construct my GUI components).
Thanks very much for the responses guys. I actually tried something similar with a dictionary already, but then I discovered the obvious: I need them in a certain order! :) Here is what I want to do more specifically: I am creating a single frame (wxPython terminology for a window) and the user will be able to click a "New" button which will open a new tab in that frame (using the wx.Notebook class). Each time a new tab is opened, it will contain a form to fill out, with a label widget on the left ("First Name:") and a text box control on the right (the underlines), like this: First Name: ________ Last Name: ________ Job Title: ________ etc. etc. In wxPython, you can use "sizers" for layout control, and in this case the FlexGridSizer is ideal. You just assign the above widgets to it in this order: first label, first textbox, second label, second textbox, etc. Instead of manually creating these widgets and adding all of them to the sizer (and having to add or delete code later in case something changes) I wanted to use some type of for loop to do it for me. This is easy for creating and adding the labels, because I need no reference for them later. But I will need a reference for the textboxes so I can later get the data that is in them. So my original question involved finding a way to assign a variable name to the textboxes while they are being automatically created in a for loop. This seems like something that is probably done quite often and maybe I'm just not thinking of the proper idiom that is used. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list