manstey wrote: > so they might provide a list of names, like 'bob','john','pete', with 3 > structures per name, such as 'apple','orange','red' and I need 9 tuples > in my code to store their data: > > bob_apple=() > bob_orange=() > .. > pete_red=()
I really think you should be using dictionaries here. You don't want to be messing around creating random variables in the local or global namespace. For instance myvals = {} myvals['bob'] = {} myvals['pete'] = {} ... myvals['bob']['apple'] = (1,2,3,4) myvals['bob']['orange'] = (2,3,4) myvals['pete']['red'] = (4,5,6,7) and so on >>> myvals {'pete': {'red': (4, 5, 6, 7)}, 'bob': {'orange': (2, 3, 4), 'apple': (1, 2, 3,4)}} -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list