Question

For example I’ve created a set of list:

LIST_chr1=[]
LIST_chr2=[]
LIST_chr3=[]
...
...

Now when processing the text, for certain line, if I get “chr2”, then I need to use LIST_chr2 thus select this list, how should I point to this specific list according to the list name?

Thanks

Answer 1

Usually, you don’t want to do something like this …

You could try:

vname = 'chr3'
list_I_want = globals()['LIST_'+vname]

Although, usually the MUCH BETTER way to do something like this is to store the lists in a dict in the first place

my_list_dict = dict(LIST_chr1=[],LIST_chr2=[],LIST_chr3=[],...)

and then:

list_I_want = my_list_dict['LIST_'+vname]