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copied!<p>----Complete Rephrasing----</p> <p>I was working on a new class where each instance was essentially sequential and linked. I had thought, in a very shell scripty way, that I could define a function to compile a list of all of these instances if I named them systematically. Then I could do what I wanted in the first place, which was navigate through the sequence in some way.</p> <p>But I see that this is a awful approach. As I understand it now, I should do one of the following instead:</p> <ul> <li>Include embedded references in the class and thereby create a recursive data structure.</li> <li>Create a list of all of the instances, which is perhaps updated in the class <strong>init</strong> or when a new instance is made.</li> <li>Forget defining a new class in the first place and use a list of other objects.</li> </ul> <p>I hope I've got that straight. Thanks again for the advice.</p> <p>-----Original but edited generalized question-----</p> <p>Hello,</p> <p>I'm relatively new to Python and I find myself always wanted to generate a list of existing objects of some kind. Say I had three variables named x# where # is a number from 1 to 3. The sort of code I feel tempted to write would be something like:</p> <pre><code>n=1 List_Of_X=[] while n < 4: List_Of_X.append("x%s" % (n)) n += 1 </code></pre> <p>But then of course I end up with a list of strings rather than variables. So, is there any way to 'express' the variables corresponding to the strings? Or better yet, create a list of variables in the first place? </p> <p>Edit: The crux was not specifying a list manually - I wanted somehow to automate that. It seems from the answers below that I can use my admittedly crummy method above to generate a list of strings, then use the eval() function to express them. Or, use a somewhat complex method of generating a list of objects in the first place. </p> <p>I get the feeling that either solutions are probably not the best practices but I appreciate all the help! Thanks.</p>

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