Lets say I have a list containing 12, 13, 23 or however many entries. What I want is the greatest number of lists evenly divisible by a certain number, and for those lists to be assigned to variables.
This leads to a few problems.. If I don't know the length of the list beforehand, I can't create the variables and hardcode them. Is it possible in python to generate free variables without stating them explicitly in the code, and if so, how would you get a reference to them? Secondly, is there an easier way to chop a list up into smaller lists? consider this code: # my_list=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14, # 15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25] # entry=0 # dictionary_of_lists = {} # while len(original_list) != 0: # new_list=[] # for x in range(4): # if len(original_list) > 0: # new_list.append(files.pop(0)) # dictionary_of_lists[entry] = new_list # entry +=1 would give us {1:[1,2,3,4],2:[5,6,7,8], 3:[9,10,11,12],4:[13,14,15,16], 5:[17,18,19,20],6:[21,22,23,24],7:[25]} Is there a better way? What I'd like to do is create free variables without needing to put them in a dictionary. If not, is it possible in other languages? -thank in advance -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list