Question

I have a list of items in python something like this:
input:

a=['nt','mt','pt']

I want to make each item in the above list as a variable and then assign that variable to a regex involving that variable.

output:
I want something like this:

nt=re.compile("%s=[a-z]+&" %nt)
mt=re.compile("%s=[a-z]+&" %mt)
pt=re.compile("%s=[a-z]+&" %pt)

how do i go about doing this ???
Thanks.
[sorry didn’t pose the question in the best way possible ]

Answer 1

Keep data out of your variable names. Don’t use variables, use a dictionary:

d = {name: re.compile("%s=[a-z]+&" % name) for name in a}