I have this code
for i in range(10):
variablename = "file" + str(i)
and I want to be able to go generate variables depending on the i variable
like if range was to 10 would have variables like this
How would I do this?
You can use a Dictionary
dict = {}
for i in range(10):
dict["file" + str(i)] = "value for this var"
then you can obtain a value using the variable name
f1 = dict["file1"]
you could use globals() function which contains a dictionary of all the global variables. To which I recommend reading these two pages if you are unfamiliar with scope, or dictionaries
http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#typesmapping
Short Description of the Scoping Rules?
for i in range(10):
globals()["file" + str(i)] = "newvarvalue!" + str(i)
print file0
print file1
print file2
print file3
print file4
print file5
print file6
print file7
print file8
print file9
EDIT removed locals() from solution
list comprehensions
filenames = ["file%d.txt"%i for i in range(1,11)]
or if you want them as variable names store them in a dictionary as suggested in P0lyb1us's Answer
You you need to give range() two arguments for it to work so you should change your code to:
for i in range(1,11):
variablename = "file" + str(i)
range(10) into something like range(1,11) instead.
listandappend, look here