Use iterator as variable name in function python

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I saw this question and I would like to know if is possible to use something to solve a problem I have.

I defined list of mathematical object

obj1,obj2,...,objn

And I have a function fun which does something with these objects

sol1=fun(obj1)
sol2=fun(obj2)
...
soln=fun(objn)

Now what I wanted is use a for loop to calculate all the sol1. I know I can do it putting all the object on a list but I was wondering if is possible do something else.

do you or don't you have all the obj1, obj2, ..., objn in a list? — Julien Spronck
– Julien Spronck, Commented May 17, 2015 at 5:51
I forgot to add a link to this stackoverflow.com/questions/8530694/… I know I can do a it all the object on a list but I was wondering if there is another way to do it. For some reasons could be useful to me have all solutions as sol_i instead sol[i]. — rpanai
– rpanai, Commented May 17, 2015 at 6:05
there are multiple ways to do what you're asking for (exec, globals, ...). However, these methods are usually highly frowned upon and using a list or a dict is lot more pythonic — Julien Spronck
– Julien Spronck, Commented May 17, 2015 at 6:24
Hi Julien, the objects are not (meant to be) on a list. I agree that using a list is more pythonic but as I need the k object to be objk and not obj[k] I'm looking for some possible alternative. This is due to the particular nature of the object obj. As example if I'm in a multidimensional space I can use x[0] as x_1 and x[n-1] as x_n but if i want to do a partial derivative I much prefer to have my variable called x_k than x[k-1]. I hope it is more clear. And sorry again to everyone for the bad edited question. — rpanai
– rpanai, Commented May 17, 2015 at 7:29

skolsuper · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-17 05:45:06Z

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sol_iterator = (fun(x) for x in obj_iterator)

answered May 17, 2015 at 5:45

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glglgl · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-17 05:45:49Z

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I defined list of mathematical object obj1,obj2,...,objn

So you have

objs = [obj1, obj2, obj3]

and want to create a list of the results?

The easiest thing is

sols = [fun(obj) for obj in objs]

answered May 17, 2015 at 5:45

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eavildosola · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-17 06:06:38Z

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So you have:

obj1,obj2,...,objn

and some function, let us say:

def func(obj):
    print(obj*2))

So, you are looking for this:

for i in range(1,n+1):
   fun(eval("obj"+str(i)))

answered May 17, 2015 at 6:06

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rpanai Over a year ago

Thank you, this is partly what I'm looking for. But in this way i don't have sol1,sol2, etc.

skolsuper Over a year ago

Well this answer gets you most of the way there. Possibly you need to use exec rather than eval to create variables with variable names, e.g. for i in range(1,n+1): exec('sol{0} = fun(obj{0})'.format(str(i)), globals(), locals())

skolsuper Over a year ago

Disclaimer: While the above may work (I didn't test it), whatever you are really trying to achieve, this is not the best way to do it.

eavildosola Over a year ago

just change the print on the function for a return, and use the exec command to asign "sol"+str(index) to each call of the function. I agree with @skolsuper this is not a good way to to this!

rpanai Over a year ago

@skolsuper: you can see the discussion with Julien above. Thanks for your answer it works for fun with one input. But what if I have a fun(obj_i, b) where b is given and not changing over the loop?

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