Python creating variables with names from range

Question

I want to use some code similar to what follows that actually works:

P = 20
n = 1
for x in range(1, P+1):
    Ax = n #Hoping that you can name the variable from the current element in the range
    n = n+1

I want to make varibles A1, A2, A3....A20 they would have the values 1, 2, 3...20 in this example...

Is this possible at all, and what coding does it require?

Cheers

Answer 1

You don't actually want to do this. Instead, you want something like this:

P = 20
n = 1
A = []        # Or `A = list()`
for x in range(1, P+1):
    A.append(n)
    n += 1

Then, instead of A0, you do A[0] and instead of A5 you do A[5].

Here is the Python 3.x list documentation (I presume you are using Python 3.x due to using range rather than xrange.

Also, as I understand it, your code could just be this:

P = 20
A = []
for x in range(1, P+1):
    A.append(x)

Or this:

P = 20
A = [i for i in range(1, P+1)]

(See the documentation for list comprehensions, a very useful feature of Python.)

Or even:

P = 20
A = list(range(1, P+1))