For Loop With A New Variable Assigned To Each Element

[willnburger]

Hey Guys, I've got some search results returned from a re.search function and I want to get all the results. I'd like to use a for loop, where I assign a variable to each item in the list but I don't know how. Can anybody help me with that? Cheers

[Eigenvektor]

Using variable variable names doesn't really make sense. How would you keep track of how many variables there are later on? What you want is an array, which you already seem to have since you're using a for loop. Alternatively you could use a dictionary, to give a unique name to each result.

 

Maybe give a bit more details about what your actual goal is? I'm sure someone can come up with a proper solution.

[Slottr]

Dictionary, nodes, arrays are much better options.

 

There's no efficient or resourceful way to do what you want

[straight_stewie]

re.search only finds the first match or none. It does not represent a collection of matches.

 

We could help you better if you could tell us exactly what you are trying to do.

 

Until that time, however, suffice it to say:

If the language is reflexive, then it's technically possible to iterate over some collection of objects and turn them into uniquely named variables. However, this is the least efficient, most difficult, and hardest to get right way of handling collections of items.

 

There are a bunch of different types of data structures which can let you efficiently access collections of objects using all sorts of patterns. The selection of which data structure to use is dependent on what you actually know about the objects when the collection is created and how you want to use the objects later. Therefore, if you could tell us more specifically what you are trying to do, then we could help you much better.