Is there a nicer way to do this?

[Terry Reedy]

"Stefan Arentz" <stefan.arentz at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| Is there a better way to do the following?
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| attributes = ['foo', 'bar']
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| attributeNames = {}
| n = 1
| for attribute in attributes:
|   attributeNames["AttributeName.%d" % n] = attribute
|   n = n + 1
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| It works, but I am wondering if there is a more pythonic way to
| do this.

Perhaps better is using enumerate:

>>> attributeNames = {}
>>> for n,attribute in enumerate(['foo', 'bar']):
 attributeNames["AttributeName.%d" % (n+1)] = attribute

>>> attributeNames
{'AttributeName.1': 'foo', 'AttributeName.2': 'bar'}

However,  mapping indexes to names should be more useful:

>>> aNames = dict(enumerate(['foo', 'bar']))
>>> aNames
{0: 'foo', 1: 'bar'}


Terry Jan Reedy