If we wanted to do something with something like: year0 = 0 year1 = 0 year2 = 0 ... year999 = 0
where we keep a thousand years, and set them all to zero, then you're right in thinking that having one thousand separate variables is probably not a viable approach. We can handle this uniformly, though, by using a list. year = [0] * 1000 'year' is now a list with 1000 elements, all of which are zero. We can access each in turn: year[0] year[1] year[2] .... year[999] and see that they all have zero in them. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor