On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Philip Gröger<philip.groe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I need to create multiple variables (lets say 10x10x10 positions of atoms). > Is it possible to create them through a loop with some kind of indexing like > atom000, atom001, etc? > Or is this a very bad idea?
Yes, very bad idea. Use a collection of some sort instead (list, dict, set). Dynamic variable names are usually evil. > Thing is ... i want to create a grid of atoms in vpython and then calculate > the forces for each of them (to their neighbours). Don't know how else I > could do that. Maybe a huuuge matrix? Yup, that sounds like a promising possibility. You might want to look at NumPy - http://numpy.scipy.org/ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
