Need array help

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Marion, I think you should start with the tutorials. To access an array
in Python, use brackets not parens. so, instead of "acctfile(ct) =
data" try "acctfile[ct] = data". The tutorials are excellent and if you
are learning from vb, you can go through them pretty quickly.



On Oct 6, 10:25 am, "Marion Long Jr" <mlon... at verizon.net> wrote:
> I am switching from microsoft visual basic programming to python
> programming. In microsoft
> visual basic you can Dim a variable so that you can add variables by
> changing the number
> on the end of the variable as in the following example;
>
> Dim acct(100)
>
> numoffiles=4
> data=10
> ct=1
> while ct <> numoffiles
> acctfile(ct) = data
> ct= ct + 1
> data= data + ct
> Wend
> The results are;
> acctfile(1)=10
> acctfile(2)=12
> acctfile(3)=15
>
> And you can compare the values of the new variables;
> if acctfile(1) > acctfile(2) then print "yes"
> if acctfile(2) > acctfile(1) then print "yes"
>
> when I try to create acctfile(ct) = data I get the following error;
> ***can't assign to function call. Then it gives the program line of the
> problem
> Here is the progam in python;
>
> numoffiles=4
> data=10
> ct=1
>
> while ct != numoffiles:
>     acctfile(ct) =data
>     ct += 1
>     data= data + ct
>     print acctfile(ct)
> 
> Does anybody know how this is done in Python?