Type mismatchings and the rank newbie

[Timothy Grant]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:21:18PM +0000, John Brawley wrote:
> Rank newbie here, trying to do something specific.
> I need to use a set of numbers (say, 1 to 25), and create 25 lists from the
> numbers (1 thru 25), which lists have a character "P" and a number (one of
> the 25).
> 
> The lists I want look like :
> P1=[x, y, z]
> P2=[x, y, z]
> P3=[x, y, z]
> (etcetera down to P25)

I'm not completely sure I understand the question, but you
might try something like this...

exec 'P%s=[%s,%s,%s]' %(1,'x','y','z')

This will create and execute a python statement that looks like
this...

P1=[x,y,z]

However, I do believe that you best bet would be to use a
dictionary...

P = {}
P[1] = [x,y,z]
P[2] = [x,y,z]
P[3] = [x,y,z]

-- 
Stand Fast,
    tjg.

Timothy Grant                         tjg at exceptionalminds.com
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