Others posted answer to your question. If you are serious about programming in Python, I highly recommend that you don't try to think in terms of "I did this in Visual Basic, how do I do this in Python". You'll end up with Python code that are nothing but a VB look alike. As recommended by others, go througth the tutorial. It will be time well spent.
Marion Long Jr wrote: > I am switching from microsoft visual basic programming to python > programming. In microsoft > visual basic you can Dim a variable so that you can add variables by > changing the number > on the end of the variable as in the following example; > > Dim acct(100) > > numoffiles=4 > data=10 > ct=1 > while ct <> numoffiles > acctfile(ct) = data > ct= ct + 1 > data= data + ct > Wend > The results are; > acctfile(1)=10 > acctfile(2)=12 > acctfile(3)=15 > > And you can compare the values of the new variables; > if acctfile(1) > acctfile(2) then print "yes" > if acctfile(2) > acctfile(1) then print "yes" > > when I try to create acctfile(ct) = data I get the following error; > ***can't assign to function call. Then it gives the program line of the > problem > Here is the progam in python; > > numoffiles=4 > data=10 > ct=1 > > while ct != numoffiles: > acctfile(ct) =data > ct += 1 > data= data + ct > print acctfile(ct) > > Does anybody know how this is done in Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
