Question

I’m sure it is simple, but after googling for a hour (new to python), I’m still not sure what to google to fix my issue 🙁 you can see from my current code and the desired results as to what I am trying to achieve!

Thx
Matt.

Code :

usernames = ['joe', 'john', 'fred']

joe_image = 'c:\aaa\blahblah.jpg'
john_image = 'c:\aaa\foobar.jpg'
fred_image = 'd:\aaa\1234.jpg'


for z in usernames:
    print z
    y = z + '_image'
    print y

Results :

joe
joe_image
john
john_image
fred
fred_image

Desired Results

joe
c:\aaa\blahblah.jpg
john
c:\aaa\foobar.jpg
fred
d:\aaa\1234.jpg

Answer 1

You need something called a Dictionary

lookup_path = {'joe': 'C:\whatev', 'john':'C:\else'}
for z in usernames
    print lookup_path[z]