Jules Stevenson wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm fairly green to python and programming, so please go gently. The > following code > > for display in secondary: > > self.("so_active_"+display) = wx.CheckBox(self.so_panel, -1, "checkbox_2") > > Errors, because of the apparent nastyness at the beginning. What I’m > trying to do is loop through a list and create uniquely named wx > widgets based on the list values. Obviously the above doesn’t work, > and is probably naughty – what’s a good approach for achieving this? > Hi,
What you're looking for is the builtin function setattr: http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-66 Your snippet would be written (not tested): for display in secondary: setattr(self, "so_active_"+display, wx.CheckBox(self.so_panel, -1, "checkbox_2")) RB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list