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> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:11 AM
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> Subject: Iterate creating variables?
>
> I have twenty-five checkboxes I need to create (don't ask):
>
> self.checkbox1 = ...
> self.checkbox2 = ...
> .
> .
> .
> self.checkbox25 = ...
>
> Right now, my code has 25 lines in it, one for each checkbox, since
> these are all variables.
>
> Is there a way to write a loop so that I can have fewer lines of code
> but still keep the variables?
>
> I've tried:
>
> for o in xrange(25):
> self.checkbox[o] = ...
>
> which didn't work, and
>
> for o in xrange(25):
> self.checkbox[''%d'%(o)] = ...
>
> which also didn't work.
>
> Both give the error message: "Attribute error: Main.App has no
> attribute "checkbox"", which clearly indicates that I'm not keeping
> the "variability" aspect I want.
>
> Is there a way?
>
> I appreciate any and all answers!
Either store the checkboxes in an array or hash/dictionary. If that's
not practical, then
You can use strings to build the code and use eval to execute the string
as code. Ex:
for i in range(10):
code = "%d + %d" % (i, i)
print eval(code)
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