defining variable names with counters in python

Question

I am trying to assign every letter in the given word 'cmpny' to an undefined variable(here, i am using counters as variable)

var_counter = 0
user_input = 'cmpny'
for usr in user_input:
    var_counter = var_counter + 1
    (var_counter_'%d' %var_counter) = usr
    print(var_counter'%d'%var_counter)

Here, I want this to appear as follows:

var_counter_1 = c
var_counter_2 = m
var_counter_3 = p
var_counter_4 = n
var_counter_5 = y

Is this possible?

Please check the answer – Vaibhav Jadhav Dec 24 '19 at 07:20 — Vaibhav Jadhav, Dec 24 '19 at 07:20

Vaibhav Jadhav · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-24T07:19:54.443

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Try the following:

var_counter = 0
user_input = 'cmpny'

for usr in user_input:
  var_counter +=1
  tempVar = "var_counter_"+str(var_counter)
  globals()[tempVar] = usr

It will create variables like var_counter_1,var_counter_2,....

You can check the output by using:

print(var_counter_1)
print(var_counter_2) and so on

or by using loop

for i in range(1,len(user_input)+1):
   print(eval("var_counter_"+str(i)))

edited Dec 24 '19 at 07:19

answered Dec 24 '19 at 07:13

Vaibhav Jadhav

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