exec "global" problem

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Michaell Taylor <nytaylor at bestweb.net> (MT) writes:

MT> I have seen lots of discussion of the problem of executing the following code:

MT> global sub
MT> sub=['sub1', 'sub2', ...'sub600']
MT> def make():
MT> 	for X in range(1,600):
MT> 		exec "global sub%s" % (X)
MT> 		exec "sub%s={}" % (X)
MT> 		other stuff

If you just want to create these 600 variables do the following:

def make():
	for X in range(1,600):
		exec "global sub%s;sub%s={}" % (X,X)

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