Ron_Adam wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:39:17 +0200, remi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I have got a list like : mylist = ['item 1', 'item 2',....'item n'] and I would like to store the string 'item1' in a variable called s_1, 'item2' in s_2,...,'item i' in 's_i',... The lenght of mylist is finite ;-)
Any ideas ?
Thanks a lot.
Rémi.
Why not just access the list by index? Just start with zero instead of 1.
If you _really_ must have one-based indexes, use a sentinal at the beginning of the list:
>>> mylist = ['item 1', 'item 2',....'item n'] >>> s = [None] + mylist # the sentinal is never used >>> print s[1] 'item 1' >>> print s[28] 'item 28' >>> print s[29] # there are only 28 items! Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? IndexError: list index out of range
Then you can process all the items without needing to remember how many there are:
>>> for i in range(1, len(s)): ... do_something(s[i])
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