"John Bausano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>
>I've been using Ansys which is a commercial FEA package which can be
>controlled through its own scripting language they call APDL. Now I'm
>trying to write some stand alone code in Python to supplement my current
>efforts.
>
>In Ansys I can do something like this.
>
>*do,n,1,3 #loop through n
>
> *dim,data%n%,1000,2 #creates variables
>arrays data1(1000,2), data2(1000,2)..
>
> *vread,data%n%,filename%n% #fills arrays with data
>from filename1,.
Generally, you need to think about your problem in a slightly different
way. Instead of thinking about creating variables called data1 and data2,
think about creating a dictionary called "data" which contains three
elements. For example:
data = {}
for n in range(3):
data[n] = read_from( 'filename%d' % n )
It IS possible to create variables on the fly, but except in very special
situations, it is almost never the right way to do things.
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