Can I print something from a table using 2 sets of variables

Question

I am having trouble being able to print reference something from a list by using 2 variables.

currentRow=4
currentRowText="row"+str(currentRow)
currentCol=3
currentLocType=currentRowText[currentCol]
print(currentRow,">",currentRowText,">",currentCol,">",currentLocType)

This prints out

4 > row4 > 3 > 4

however the last variable should be 'city' as it should be getting the data from

row4=("grasslands", "forest", "forest", "city", "forest", "forest", "mountain")

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

`currentRowText[currentCol]` gets the (3+1)st character of the string "row4", not the element at location 3 in the set named `row4`. How to get that depends on how you're storing your rows. — , May 09 '16 at 17:38
Thanks. The way that i am storing the rows is like above where i have row 4, there are rows row1-7, it is for a simple map based text game so this should be the last part i need to make it work (hopefully) — Ryan Cain, May 09 '16 at 17:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

Looks like you should replace this:

currentLocType=currentRowText[currentCol]

With:

currentLocType=row4[currentCol]

currentRowText currently contains a string, not a reference to a variable. Maybe you mean to do something like:

currentLocType=eval(currentRowText)[currentCol]

Which means interpreting currentRowText's string as code. Using eval will turn 'row4'[currentCol] into row4[currentCol]. If this is what you intend to do, first read about the disadvantages of using eval.

Can I print something from a table using 2 sets of variables

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