On Jan 24, 12:02 pm, janislaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 11:45 pm, David Brochu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is probably really trivial but I'm stumped.... :-( > > > Does anyone know how to increment a variable name? > > > For example: > > > I know the length of a list and I want to pass each element of a list > > to a unique variable, thus I want to increment variable names. If the > > list length = 4, i want to have the following variables: var1, var2, > > var3, var4. > > > Thanks > > Do you want to do this?: > locals()['var'+str(1)] = "spam"
As I recently learnt in this newsgroup, that's not guaranteed to work. >From http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html Warning: The contents of this dictionary should not be modified; changes may not affect the values of local variables used by the interpreter. -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
