Question

How can I store values in a list without specifying index numbers?

For example

outcomeHornFive=5

someList = []
someList.append(outComeHornFive)

instead of doing this,

someList[0] # to reference horn five outcome

how can i do something like this? The reason is there are many items that I need to reference within the list and I just think it’s really inconvenient to keep track of which index is what.

someList.hornFive

Answer 1

You can use another data structure if you’d like to reference things by attribute access (or otherwise via a name).

You can put them in a dict, or create a class, or do something else. It depends what kind of other interaction you want to have with that object.

(P.S., we call those lists, not arrays).