iterating initalizations

[Aaron Stepp]

On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Aaron Stepp <stepp.aaron at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Thanks for the help so far, I think I'm starting to get a hang of the
>> syntax.
>>
>> I think I need to state my goal more clearly.
>>
>> Instead of writing a long list of initializations like so:
>>
>> A = [ ]
>> B = [ ]
>> ...
>> Y = [ ]
>> Z = [ ]
>>
>> I'd like to save space by more elegantly turning this into a loop.   
>> If I
>> need to just write it out, I guess that's ok... but it would be much
>> cleaner.  I'm a composer, not a programmer, so some of this is  
>> quite above
>> me.
>>
>
> So, are these variables supposed to be module-level, or attributes of
> class pitchAndRhythm, or what?
> Also, are you going to use the variables normally or are you going to
> need "variable variables" (e.g. like $$var in PHP, which gives the
> value of the variable with the name of the string stored in $var)?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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The're going to only be part of the pitchAndRhythm class.  Simply put,  
I just need enough arrays to hold a list of pitches/rhythms.  Then  
I'll have each list member returned to an instrument defined in  
another module.

As I'm hacking away at the code, I'm realizing that maybe I can do  
this with just and A = [] and B = [].  But I'm not sure...

Thanks again.

AS