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Re: use a loop to create lists

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:40 PM,  <martaamunar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to create a list containing lists. I need each list to have a differente name and i would like to use a loop to name the list. But as the name, is a string, i cannot asign it to a value... how can I do that??
>
>
> global_list=[]
> for i in range (20):
>   ("list_"+i)=[]   #These would be the name of the list...
>   global_list.append("list_"+i)

They don't need unique names. Just use the same name inside the loop:

global_list=[]
for i in range(20):
  current_list=[]  # Presumably you do something with it here
  global_list.append(current_list)

That'll work fine, and you can reference the lists by their positions
in global_list.

ChrisA

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use a loop to create lists martaamunar@gmail.com - 2013-04-10 01:40 -0700
  Re: use a loop to create lists Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 18:52 +1000
  Re: use a loop to create lists Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-10 08:36 -0400
  Re: use a loop to create lists rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 08:31 -0700
  Re: use a loop to create lists Thomas Goebel <Thomas.Goebel@ohm-hochschule.de> - 2013-04-10 15:55 +0200
  Fwd: use a loop to create lists Franz Kelnreiter <kelnreiter@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 14:11 +0200
  Re: use a loop to create lists Thomas Goebel <Thomas.Goebel@ohm-hochschule.de> - 2013-04-11 14:57 +0200
  Re: use a loop to create lists Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:22 +1000
  Re: Fwd: use a loop to create lists Thomas Goebel <Thomas.Goebel@ohm-hochschule.de> - 2013-04-11 15:43 +0200
  Re: use a loop to create lists Franz Kelnreiter <kelnreiter@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 16:11 +0200
  Re: use a loop to create lists Thomas Goebel <Thomas.Goebel@ohm-hochschule.de> - 2013-04-11 16:33 +0200
  Re: Fwd: use a loop to create lists Franz Kelnreiter <kelnreiter@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 16:33 +0200
  Re: use a loop to create lists Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-04-11 18:17 -0400

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