BJ Swope wrote: > given a list such as > > ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses'] > > how would I iterate over the list and use the values as variables and > open the variable names a files? > > I tried > > for outfile in ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses']: > filename = os.path.join(Host_Path, outfile) > outfile = open(filename, 'w') > > But it's not working.
the code looks ok. please define "not working". </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list