Sure you can; it's called a dictionary:
d = {}
for x in range(1, 10):
d["string{0}".format(x)] = "Hello"
>>> d["string5"]
'Hello'
>>> d
{'string1': 'Hello',
'string2': 'Hello',
'string3': 'Hello',
'string4': 'Hello',
'string5': 'Hello',
'string6': 'Hello',
'string7': 'Hello',
'string8': 'Hello',
'string9': 'Hello'}
I said this somewhat tongue in check, but really the best way to associate one value with another value is a dictionary. That is what it was designed for!
Answer from the wolf on Stack OverflowSure you can; it's called a dictionary:
d = {}
for x in range(1, 10):
d["string{0}".format(x)] = "Hello"
>>> d["string5"]
'Hello'
>>> d
{'string1': 'Hello',
'string2': 'Hello',
'string3': 'Hello',
'string4': 'Hello',
'string5': 'Hello',
'string6': 'Hello',
'string7': 'Hello',
'string8': 'Hello',
'string9': 'Hello'}
I said this somewhat tongue in check, but really the best way to associate one value with another value is a dictionary. That is what it was designed for!
It is really bad idea, but...
for x in range(0, 9):
globals()['string%s' % x] = 'Hello'
and then for example:
print(string3)
will give you:
Hello
However this is bad practice. You should use dictionaries or lists instead, as others propose. Unless, of course, you really wanted to know how to do it, but did not want to use it.
Is it possible to create variables in a loop?
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Changing variable name in for loop?
Why does everyone teach FOR LOOPS with the same variable name?
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I need to create a large number of variable. Currently what I have is:
var1 = 0 var2 = 0 ... var1000 = 0
Is it possible to create these variables in some sort of loop instead of writing each one?
#Pseudocode
for i in range(1000):
var_i = 0Update:
Thanks a lot for all the comments! The list idea worked!
You probably want a dict instead of separate variables. For example
d = {}
for i in range(3):
d["group" + str(i)] = self.getGroup(selected, header+i)
If you insist on actually modifying local variables, you could use the locals function:
for i in range(3):
locals()["group"+str(i)] = self.getGroup(selected, header+i)
On the other hand, if what you actually want is to modify instance variables of the class you're in, then you can use the setattr function
for i in group(3):
setattr(self, "group"+str(i), self.getGroup(selected, header+i)
And of course, I'm assuming with all of these examples that you don't just want a list:
groups = [self.getGroup(i,header+i) for i in range(3)]
Use a list.
groups = [0]*3
for i in xrange(3):
groups[i] = self.getGroup(selected, header + i)
or more "Pythonically":
groups = [self.getGroup(selected, header + i) for i in xrange(3)]
For what it's worth, you could try to create variables the "wrong" way, i.e. by modifying the dictionary which holds their values:
l = locals()
for i in xrange(3):
l['group' + str(i)] = self.getGroup(selected, header + i)
but that's really bad form, and possibly not even guaranteed to work.
Hello,
I know this is probably a really basic python task, but I have been unable to figure it out. I am using python-pptx to create a powerpoint. My actual script is more complex, but for the sake of this question, suppose I have a for loop with which I iterate on a list, and create a new slide for each item in the list. The python-pptx library requires that I name each new slide something different - how do I update the name of the variable for each loop iteration? In the example below, how would "slide1" become "slide2" as the loop progresses through the list?
list_of_slide_content = ["example","of","content"]
for cont in list_of_slide_content:
slide1 = pptx.slide(0)
slide1.add_text(cont)I'm trying to learn for loops but it feels like everyone teaches examples writing for loops with the same variable name but in the singular form.
Example:
For number in numbers:
For course in courses:
For plane in planes:
For car in cars:
Is there a reason why most people like writing their for loops this way. For me it takes a while to understand more than if they used a different variable name entirely.
I wasn't really sure how to describe this, but bascially this is what I want to do:
a1=1;a2=2;a3=3
for i in [1,2,3]: print a(i)
I want this to print a1, a2, and a3. Is there a way to make that work?
"I want to define several variables with trailing ascending numbers 0, 1, 2, etc." is a red flag that you really should be using a list.
You probably want to defer to r/learnpython for these types of questions.
Nevertheless, it's not clear what you want to do. On the one hand, you could just make a a list and index into that:
a = [1, 2, 3]
for i in [0, 1, 2]:
print(a[i])Or, probably what you want to do is put these things in a dictionary:
data = {'a1': 1, 'a2': 2, 'a3': 3}
for i in [1, 2, 3]:
print(data['a{}'.format(i)])Use a dictionary instead. E.g:
doubles = dict()
for x in range(1, 13):
doubles[x] = x * 2
Or if you absolutely must do this AND ONLY IF YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING, you can assign to locals() as to a dictionary:
>>> for x in range(1, 13):
... locals()['double_{0}'.format(x)] = x * 2
...
>>> double_3
6
There never, ever should be a reason to do this, though - since you should be using the dictionary instead!
expanding my comment: "use a dict. it is exactly why they were created"
using defaultdict:
>>> from collections import defaultdict
>>> d = defaultdict(int)
using normal dict:
>>> d = {}
the rest:
>>> for x in range(1, 13):
d['double_%02d' % x] = x * 2
>>> for key, value in sorted(d.items()):
print key, value
double_01 2
double_02 4
double_03 6
double_04 8
double_05 10
double_06 12
double_07 14
double_08 16
double_09 18
double_10 20
double_11 22
double_12 24