Creating an array with its name as a user input Python then displaying it with the name

Question

I am trying to make it so users can create text art and name then to their liking and then when they go onto the Art list they can see their art's name and show it. At the moment I have this:

#
#Text Art Thing
#15/05/2015
#By Dom

while True:
    UserInput = input("##################################################\n1 -       Create new art\n2 - Manage saved art\n3 - Watch a slideshow of all the     art\n##################################################\n\n")

    Art = []

    def NewArt():
        stop = False
        x = input("What would you like to call your art?  ")
        vars()[x] = []
        ln = 1
        while stop == False :
            inputln = input("" + str(ln) + ")  ")
            if inputln == "end" :
                stop = True
                print("You have exited the editor. Your art is shown below!\n##################################################\n")
                print("\n".join(vars()[x]))
                print("\n##################################################\n")
                Art.append(vars()[x])
            ln += 1
            vars()[x].append(inputln)





    if UserInput == "1" :
        print("Loading...")
        NewArt()
    if UserInput == "2" :
        print("Loading...")
        SavedArt()
    if UserInput == "3" :
        print("Loading...")
        SlideArt()

This can create multiple art fine but I only get this then I type in art: [['Cat1', 'Cat2', 'end']] The name does not show typing Cat only gets a error.

Hope you can help.

create a dict `names = {}`, then `names[x] = []`, in the loop `names[x].append(whatever)` — Padraic Cunningham, May 15 '15 at 20:29
Canonical duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1373164/how-do-i-do-variable-variables-in-python — jonrsharpe, May 15 '15 at 20:29
Just by the way here, but you don't need to begin a string concatenation with an empty string. — TigerhawkT3, May 15 '15 at 20:39
You can also do `while True` and `if inputln == "end" ...break` — Padraic Cunningham, May 15 '15 at 20:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '15 at 20:32

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You can store all art in a Python dict, relating each "image" (ASCII art string) to a name.

Example:

art = {}

# ...

x = input("What would you like to call your art?  ")
art[x] = []

while stop == False :

# ...

art[x].append(inputln)

answered May 15 '15 at 20:32

nivix zixer

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This works okay however it removes my previous array inside the dict when I create a new one. – Dom May 16 '15 at 07:10
@Dom `art = {}` should be before the `while True:` statement. As a "global" – nivix zixer May 16 '15 at 14:33

Creating an array with its name as a user input Python then displaying it with the name

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