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Re: Question on for loop

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On 2013-01-03 20:04, subhabangalore@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
> If I take a list like the following:
>
> fruits = ['banana', 'apple',  'mango']
> for fruit in fruits:
>     print 'Current fruit :', fruit
>
> Now,
> if I want variables like var1,var2,var3 be assigned to them, we may take,
> var1=banana,
> var2=apple,
> var3=mango
>
> but can we do something to assign the variables dynamically I was thinking
> of
> var_series=['var1','var2','var3']
> for var in var_series:
>    for fruit in fruits:
>         print var,fruits
>
> If any one can kindly suggest.
>
> Regards,
> Subhabrata
>
> NB: Apology for some alignment mistakes,etc.
>
Why would you want to do that? Creating names dynamically like that is
a bad idea. Just keep them in a list, like they are already.

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  Re: Question on for loop MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-01-03 20:21 +0000
  Re: Question on for loop Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-01-03 21:22 +0100
  Re: Question on for loop Matt Jones <matt.walker.jones@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 14:28 -0600
  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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