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Opening more than one file

Aug 9th, 2008 02:20
Sek Tea, Nathan Wallace, unknown unknown, Hans Nowak, Snippet 92, Skip Montanaro

"""
Packages: files
"""
""" 
> I have a variable, which can have a value in the range from 1 to 20.
> 
> If the value is 7, I have to open 7 files.
> 
> What could be an elegant way of doing this?
Well, how about:
"""
nfiles = 3  # your number of files here [PSST]
files = []
for i in range(nfiles):
    files.append(open("/tmp/file%03d"%i, "wb"))
"""
then access the i-th file as files[i]?
"""
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