[Tutor] Naming variables

[Peter Otten]

Pierre Dagenais wrote:

> I wish to fill a list called years[] with a hundred lists called
> year1900[], year1901[], year1902[], ..., year1999[]. That is too much
> typing of course. Any way of doing this in a loop? I've tried stuff like
> ("year" + str(1900)) = [0,0] but nothing works.
> Any solution?

Use a dict:

years = {}
for year in range(1900, 2000):
    years[year] = [0, 0]

Then instead of

print year1982

you have to type

print years[1982]