[GRASS-dev] python question

[Michael Barton]

Thanks Anna and Glynn,

I got the same advice from a colleague here: use a dictionary. Works perfectly to resolve the problem.

Michael Barton
School of Human Evolution &Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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On Jun 24, 2012, at 1:56 AM, "Anna Kratochvílová" <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> This is probably simple but I'm missing something somewhere. How can I
>> dynamically create variable names and then assign values to the variables? I
>> need to do something along the lines of:
>> 
>> for i in flist:
>> 's%_new' % i = 10
>> 
>> where flist is a list of strings (e.g., file names)
>> 
>> 
> 
> You can find answer here:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2320945/python-using-vars-to-assign-a-string-to-a-variable
> 
> example of using function vars is in wxpython/gui_core/toolbars.py, line 130
> 
> Anna
> 
>> Thanks
>> Michael
>> 
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>> 
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