On Jan 8, 2008 6:03 AM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BJ Swope wrote: > > > given a list such as > > > > ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses'] > > > > how would I iterate over the list and use the values as variables and > > open the variable names a files? > > > > I tried > > > > for outfile in ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses']: > > filename = os.path.join(Host_Path, outfile) > > outfile = open(filename, 'w') > > > > But it's not working. > > the code looks ok. please define "not working". > > </F> > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Yep, defining "not working" is always helpful! :) I want to have all 3 files open at the same time. I will write to each of the files later in my script but just the last file is open for writing.
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