Creating Unique Dictionary Variables from List

Greg Corradini gregcorradini at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 16:01:47 EDT 2007


Bruno,
Your help is much appreciated. I will give this a try tomorrow morning and
get back on how it works. 


Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 
> Greg Corradini a écrit :
>> Hello All,
>> I'm attempting to create multiple dictionaries at once, each with unique
>> variable names. The number of dictionaries i need to create depends on
>> the
>> length of a list, which was returned from a previous function.
>> The pseudo code for this problem would be:
>> 
>> returnedlist = [x,y,z]
>> count = 0
>> for i in returnedlist:
>>        if count < len(returnedlist):
>>        # then create a dictionary (beginning with variable dic) for each
>> i
>> with a unique name such that
>>        # my unique name would be dic + count
>> 
>> Any ideas about this?
> 
> Yes : use a dict to store your dicts:
> 
> returnedlist = [x,y,z]
> dicts = dict()
> for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
>     dicts['dict%s' % num] = dict()
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