Dynamic creation of variables (for Lists)

Question

I know this is likely a bad idea.. but seems the \"best\" way to do this outside of creating all possible options and ignore the unused results. I have a source file that contai

Answer 1

I do not recommend polluting your namespace by dynamically generating variables. This could especially get out of hand with large lists. You should just use a dictionary instead.

In [941]: d = {x : [] for x in  'abcde'}; d
Out[941]: {'a': [], 'b': [], 'c': [], 'd': [], 'e': []}

Look how easy this is to create and maintain.