[Tutor] Shorten Code.

[Alexander Etter]

On Nov 18, 2011, at 13:15, ALAN GAULD <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 
> > > for var in [value,value_1]:
> > >    var = "green"
> >
> > Um, that won't work.  You typed that example too quickly.
> 
> Oops! Yes. You'd need to enumerate and access the variables
> via an index. yuk. Don't do it folks! :-)
> 
> Excuse: It was early morning and I hadn't had any coffee...
> 
> Alan G.
> ____

In your defense Alan, after you typed that code in your response you mentioned the necessity of defining the variables:

>But you need to have already created the variables >somewhere and unless there is a big list its not usually >worth while.

Alexander Etter
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