So I essentially want to know how to do this in python:
X = int(input("How many students do you want to add? "))
for X:
studentX = str(input("Student Name: "))
Any ideas?
2 Answers
You don't. You'd use a list instead:
how_many = int(input("How many students do you want to add? "))
students = []
for i in range(how_many):
students.append(input("Student Name: "))
Generally speaking, you keep data out of your variable names.
answered Apr 7, 2014 at 21:30
Martijn Pieters
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Adam Smith
If I can use myself as an example, one of my first professional projects in Python involved getting file size information from a couple hundred machines. We were concerned that a purge process wasn't running correctly. I used
globals() hacking to pipe them all into dictionaries named after each file, with the key as the machine I was polling. This means I have NO idea now how to maintain that script, and God Help Me if I ever have to repair it for any reasonI upvoted Martijn's answer, but if you need something similar to a variable name, that you can call with student1 to studentX, you can use an object:
how_many = int(input("How many students do you want to add? "))
students = {}
for i in range(how_many):
students["student{}".format(i+1)] = input("Student Name: ")
I'm not gonna suggest the exec solution...
3 Comments
Martijn Pieters
Note that
i starts at 0, not 1, so you get student0 through to student<X-1>.Martijn Pieters
Surely you meant
i + 1, not -.
Mathias
Sure, embarrassing. I also accepted a suggested edit by @s16h
globals(), but that's a very bad idea