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Itsjul1an
Itsjul1an

Reputation: 339

How can i store data in an automatically created variable inside a for-loop?

I am messing around a bit with tkinter in python. I am using images for my buttons and want to load them. There's a lot of buttons in my gui, so i thought maybe there's a way to load them and store them in variable generated inside a for loop.

This is my code:

list1 = ['apple', 'peach', 'orange']
path = 'GUI/Buttons'

def initButtons(partlist : list, path : str):
    buttonsToLoad = ['ButtonActive1.png', 'ButtonInactive1.png', 'ButtonClicked1.png']
    for x in partlist:
        button + [str(x)] + '0' = Image.open(f'{path}/{x}/{buttonsToLoad[0]}')
        button + [str(x)] + '1' = Image.open(f'{path}/{x}/{buttonsToLoad[1]}')
        button + [str(x)] + '2' = Image.open(f'{path}/{x}/{buttonsToLoad[2]}') 

initButtons(list1, path)

But this doesn't work! I'm a beginner to python, so maybe there's a much simpler way that I don't know! It's a weird question, i know, but i hope someone understands and can probably help me out!

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 662

Answers (1)

Paul Lemarchand
Paul Lemarchand

Reputation: 2106

You can not name a different variable at each loop iteration, but you can store them in a dict {}:

button = {}
def initButtons(partlist : list, path : str):
    buttonsToLoad = ['ButtonActive1.png', 'ButtonInactive1.png', 'ButtonClicked1.png']
    for x in partlist:
        button[str(x) + '0'] = Image.open(f'{path}/{x}/{buttonsToLoad[0]}')
        button[str(x) + '1'] = Image.open(f'{path}/{x}/{buttonsToLoad[1]}')
        button[str(x) + '2'] = Image.open(f'{path}/{x}/{buttonsToLoad[2]}')

Then you can access your Image simply by searching its name in the dict's keys:

image = button['apple0']  # if its name is 'apple' + '0'

Upvotes: 1

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