opening more than 1 file

Martin van Nijnatten euroibc at solair1.inter.NL.net
Wed Apr 21 05:44:34 EDT 1999


Thanks, this answers my question.
Thanks, this answers my question.


Skip Montanaro wrote:

> martin van nijnatten wrote:
> >
> > I have a variable, which can have a value in the range from 1 to 20.
> >
> > If the value is 7, I have to open 7 files.
> >
> > What could be an elegant way of doing this?
>
> Well, how about:
>
>     files = []
>     for i in range(nfiles):
>         files.append(open("/tmp/file%03d"%i, "wb"))
>
> then access the i-th file as files[i]?
>
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