beginners syntax question

[Steve Holden]

"Tony" <tonyl at homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3caf47a5 at news1.homechoice.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to call the update() method of several objects ie:
>
> object1.update()
> object2.update()
> etc
>
So, you've bound each of the objects to a different variable. How did you
perform these bindings? If you wrote

object0 = SomeClass(0)
object1 = SomeClass(1)

etc., then you really ought to be asking yourself why you didn't write:

olist = []
for i in range(6):
    olist.append(SomeClass(i))

or some such construct. Then you can do

for i in range(6):
    olist[i].update()

> I'd really like to do
>
> for x in range(7):
>   "object"+str(x).update
>
> but can't figure outthe syntax, is this possible?
>
As you've already been shown, yes, it's possible. Unfortunately the answer
to "is this desirable?" is almost always a resounding "No".

regards
 Steve