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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:55:54 +0200
From: Thomas Goebel <Thomas.Goebel@ohm-hochschule.de>
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* On 10/04/2013 10:40, 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.
> [...]
> global_list=[]
> for i in range (20):
>     ("list_"+i)=[]   #These would be the name of the list...
>     global_list.append("list_"+i)

You can use a dictionary instead of a list of lists:

global_list = {'_'.join(['list', str(i)]):[] for i in range(20)}
global_list_1 = global_list['list_0']