From: skip at mojam.com (Skip Montanaro) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:53:10 GMT Subject: opening more than 1 file References: <371CB255.5FCAFBAF@solair1.inter.NL.net> Message-ID: <371CBF75.10FA1EE6@mojam.com> X-UID: 122 martin van nijnatten wrote: > > I have a variable, which can have a value in the range from 1 to 20. > > If the value is 7, I have to open 7 files. > > What could be an elegant way of doing this? Well, how about: files = [] for i in range(nfiles): files.append(open("/tmp/file%03d"%i, "wb")) then access the i-th file as files[i]? -- Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/ skip at mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/ 518-372-5583