So I have a string:
stringvar = "one;two;three;four"
I want to turn that into:
stringcount = 4
string1 = "one"
string2 = "two"
string3 = "three"
string4 = "four"
Sometimes there will be more sometimes less and of course the values could be whatever. I am looking to split a string at the ';' into separate variables and then have another variable that gives the number of variables.
thanks
Okay, now that we have that out of the way, here's how you do that.
stringvar = "one;two;three;four"
lst = stringvar.split(";")
stringcount = len(lst)
for idx, value in enumerate(lst):
globals()["string"+str(idx+1)] = value
# This is the ugliest code I've ever had to write
# please never do this. Please never ever do this.
globals() returns a dictionary containing every variable in the global scope with the variable name as a string for keys and the value as, well, values.
For instance:
>>> foo = "bar"
>>> baz = "eggs"
>>> spam = "have fun stormin' the castle"
>>> globals()
{'baz': 'eggs', '__loader__': <class '_frozen_importlib.BuiltinImporter'>, '__builtins__': <module 'builtins' (built-in)>, 'foo': 'bar', '__doc__': None, '__package__': None, 'spam': "have fun stormin' the castle", '__name__': '__main__'}
You can reference this dictionary to add new variables by string name (globals()['a'] = 'b' sets variable a equal to "b"), but this is generally a terrible thing to do. Think of how you could possibly USE this data! You'd have to bind the new variable name to ANOTHER variable, then use that inside globals()[NEW_VARIABLE] every time! Let's use a list instead, shall we?