Create multiple variables (with a loop?)

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri Jun 5 21:57:52 EDT 2009


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Gökhan SEVER<gokhansever at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could use locals() for dynamic variable names creation.

Not really. Quoting
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#locals (emphasis mine):

locals()
    Update and return a dictionary representing the current local symbol table.
    Note: The contents of this dictionary should not be modified;
**changes may not affect the values of local variables used by the
interpreter**.

It does happen to work it certain cases, but it should not be relied upon.

Cheers,
Chris
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