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Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis

Reputation: 3

python print a variable as a string from a list

I am trying to work out if this is posible. I want to print the varible name from a list. Here is my code 

brisbane=[1,2,3,4]
sydney=[2,5,8,34,6,2]
perth=[2,4,3]

towns=[brisbane,sydney,perth]

I am doing some maths, then with these numbers I want to take the string 'brisbane' from the towns list and use it somewhat like this. 

print 'the town witht the most rain was', towns[0], '.'

and print this as 'the town with the most rain was brisbane.'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (3)

Jean Guzman
Jean Guzman

Reputation: 2202

it is not possible to print a variable name at least not in the way you are presenting above.

Source: Getting the name of a variable as a string

In your case you could instead create a dictionary, like this:

towns = {}
towns['brisbane'] = [1, 2, 3, 4]
towns['sydney'] = [2, 5, 8, 34, 6, 2]
towns['perth'] = [2, 4, 3]
print(towns)

{'sydney': [2, 5, 8, 34, 6, 2], 'perth': [2, 4, 3], 'brisbane': [1, 2, 3, 4]}

Upvotes: 1

mishaF
mishaF

Reputation: 8314

You can definitely do so. Check out the string formating documents here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-examples

for your particular example, it would just be

print ("the town with the most rain was {0}".format(towns[0]))

Upvotes: 0

Anand S Kumar
Anand S Kumar

Reputation: 90889

I believe it would be easier for you to use a dictionary in this case , something like -

d = {'brisban':[1,2,3,4],
     'sydney':[2,5,8,34,6,2],
     'perth':[2,4,3]}

Then you can store the keys in the list towns , Example -

towns = list(d.keys())

And then when doing your maths , you can call each town's values as - d[<town>] , Example - d['brisbane'] .

And after that you can get the corresponding town name from towns list.

Upvotes: 3

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