On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:40 PM, <martaamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to create a list containing lists. I need each list to have a
> differente name and i would like to use a loop to name the list. But as the
> name, is a string, i cannot asign it to a value... how can I do that??
>
>
> global_list=[]
> for i in range (20):
> ("list_"+i)=[] #These would be the name of the list...
> global_list.append("list_"+i)
They don't need unique names. Just use the same name inside the loop:
global_list=[]
for i in range(20):
current_list=[] # Presumably you do something with it here
global_list.append(current_list)
That'll work fine, and you can reference the lists by their positions
in global_list.
ChrisA
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