creating lists question?

[Matt Gerrans]

"spisatus" wrote:
> I'm not sure this is doing what I want it to do. In the example I gave I
> want a new list call "aaa" another list called "bbb"... so I can append to
> the new list  i.e., bbb.append().  It may be that your example does this
but
> it appears to be (with my limited knowledge) that it's creating a list of
> lists, when all I want is a new isolated list.

This would do the trick:

for item in list1:
 exec( item + ' = []' )

Of course, there are the usual cautions about using exec() and error
handling...