opening more than 1 file

[Gary Herron]

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?
> 
> Martin


If your definition of `elegant' includes `short', here is a one-liner to
do this. It maps a list [0,1,2,...] to a list of open files:

[<open file 'file00', mode 'w' at 100bb2e8>,
 <open file 'file01', mode 'w' at 100bb338>,
 <open file 'file02', mode 'w' at 100bb388>,
 ...]

files = map(lambda i: open("file%02d"%i, 'w'), range(N))

Then, files[i] gives the i'th file.

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