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Re: Question on for loop

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On Friday, January 4, 2013 11:18:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:04:03 -0800, subhabangalore wrote:
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> > Dear Group,
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> > If I take a list like the following:
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> > fruits = ['banana', 'apple',  'mango'] 
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> > for fruit in fruits:
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> >    print 'Current fruit :', fruit
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> > Now,
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> > if I want variables like var1,var2,var3 be assigned to them, we may
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> > take, var1=banana,
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> > var2=apple,
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> > var3=mango
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> > but can we do something to assign the variables dynamically
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> Easy as falling off a log. You can't write "var1", "var2" etc. but you 
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> can write it as "var[0]", "var[1]" etc.
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> var = ['banana', 'apple',  'mango'] 
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> print var[0]  # prints 'banana'
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> print var[1]  # prints 'apple'
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> print var[2]  # prints 'mango'
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> Of course "var" is not a very good variable name. "fruit" or "fruits" 
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> would be better.
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> -- 
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> Steven

Actually in many cases it is easy if you get the variable of list value, I was trying something like,
def func1(n):
	list1=["x1","x2","x3","x4","x5","x6","x7","x8","x9","x10"]
	blnk=[]
	for i in range(len(list1)):
		num1="var"+str(i)+"="+list1[i]
		blnk.append(num1)
	print blnk
Regards,
Subhabrata. 

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  Re: Question on for loop Don Ross <donrosszx@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 15:22 -0800
  Re: Question on for loop alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 16:47 -0800
  Re: Question on for loop Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-04 05:48 +0000
    Re: Question on for loop subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-01-15 11:30 -0800
  Re: Question on for loop Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-01-04 10:16 +0000

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