Assigning to lists with arbitrary names

Daniel Dittmar daniel.dittmar at sap.com
Wed Oct 10 12:55:01 EDT 2001


> Here's the problem: I want to name each list list00 to list99. I don't
> want to do list[0] to list[99] (since each list is actually a list of
> lists, and I'd like to avoid a list of lists of lists  :).

You could use a dictionary with keys 'list00' to 'list99', but I don't think
having a dictionary of lists of lists is that much better. Why not subclass
UserList for each kind of list? Then you could at least distinguish between
the different levels.

Daniel





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