BJ Swope wrote:
> 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')
files = dict()
l = ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses']
for f in l:
files[f] = open(s.path.join(Host_Path, outfile), "w")
files["messages].write("a string")
hth
martin
PS: Code is untested
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