[Tutor] Question about loop and assigning variables

[Alan Gauld]

On 05/04/17 20:07, Fazal Khan wrote:

> assign different variables with each loop

You can't, but you can fake it...

> def BeamInfo(x):
>   for Bnum in x:
>         if plan1.IonBeamSequence[Bnum].ScanMode == 'MODULATED':
>             TxTableAngle =
> plan1.IonBeamSequence[Bnum].IonControlPointSequence[0].PatientSupportAngle
>             print(TxTableAngle)
>         else:
>             None

> Ideally what I want is this: when Bnum is 0, then "TxTableAngle" will be
> appended with "_0" (eg.TxTableAngle_0). When Bnum is 1 then TxTableAngle_1,
> etc. How do I do this in python?

Use a list (or a dictionary if the values are not sequential or numeric)

So
TxTableAngle_0 -> TxTableAngle[0]
TxTableAngle_1 -> TxTableAngle[1]

It's one extra character but hopefully that won't be too painful...

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