iterate to make multiple variables?

[Pascal Chambon]

Mark Tolonen a écrit :
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> "Tairic" <alanmf at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:95ea7bdf-2ae8-4e5e-a613-37169bb36074 at w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi, I'm somewhat new to programming and especially to python. Today I
>> was attempting to make a sudoku-solver, and I wanted to put numbers
>> into sets call box1, box2, ... box9, so that I could check new values
>> against the boxes
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>> I ended up declaring the boxes like this
>> box1 = set([])
>> box2 = set([])
>> ..
>> ..
>> box9 = set([])
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>> Is there a way for me instead to generate these variables (box1 to
>> box9) as empty sets instead of just writing them all out? Some way to
>> iterate and generate them?
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> This will generate a list of nine unique, empty sets, box[0] through 
> box[8]:
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>    box = [set() for i in range(9)]
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> -Mark
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Yep, such automatization on local variables is not really meant to be 
(even though you can play with eval(), and end up having an unreadable 
code), iterables are made for that B-)