Open a List of Files

[Fredrik Lundh]

BJ Swope wrote:

> given a list such as
> 
> ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses']
> 
> how would I iterate over the list and use the values as variables and 
> open the variable names a files?
> 
> I tried
> 
> for outfile in ['messages', 'recipients', 'viruses']:
>     filename = os.path.join(Host_Path, outfile)
>     outfile = open(filename, 'w')
> 
> But it's not working.

the code looks ok.  please define "not working".

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