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Can anyone help me with how to read variables' names here:

cactus_6 = "values"

cactus_5 = "are"

cactus_4 = "not"

cactus_3 = "relevant"

cactus_2 = "right"

cactus_1 = "now"

I need this to create a list consisting of those variables

If you're sure this is what you want:

cacti = [value for name, value in vars().items() if name.startswith('cactus_')]

It's probably better just to use a list:

cacti = ['values', 'are', 'not', 'relevant', 'right', 'now']

or dictionary in the first place, though:

{

    1: 'values',

    2: 'are',

    3: 'not',

    4: 'relevant',

    5: 'right',

    6: 'now',

}

I'm a little confused on what you want but i'll give it a shot! You want to create a list consisting of those variables?

If you only have six you could do something like this.

list = 

list.append(cactus_1)

list.append(cactus_2)

list.append(cactus_3)

list.append(cactus_4)

list.append(cactus_5)

list.append(cactus_6)

This will give you a list that looks like this:

["values",'are','not','relevant','right','now']

Hope this was helpful!

What you really want is a key-value pair, which is what you get with a dictionary structure.

# python



cactus_6 = "values"

cactus_5 = "are"

cactus_4 = "not"

cactus_3 = "relevant"

cactus_2 = "right"

cactus_1 = "now"

Becomes:

my_cactus_values = {

    "cactus_6": "values",

    "cactus_5": "are",

    "cactus_4": "not",

    "cactus_3": "relevant",

    "cactus_2": "right",

    "cactus_1": "now",

}

Then you can loop over them with the items method.

for name, value in my_cactus_values.items():

    print(name, value)

As mentioned, by using a dictionary you can store your keys without having to manually assign them.

The example below provides that:

#creates an example list of your values

values = "values are not relevant right now".split() 



#dict comprehension that adds an incremental value to the key name, starting from 1

cactuses = {'cactus{}'.format(idx):val for idx,val in enumerate(values,1)}

cactuses



{'cactus1': 'values',

 'cactus2': 'are',

 'cactus3': 'not',

 'cactus4': 'relevant',

 'cactus5': 'right',

 'cactus6': 'now'}

By using enumerate here with a start point from 1, it adds incrementally based on the length of items in your list, appends it to your cactus key and then stores its value through a dictionary comprehension.

Try using eval(). Something like this …

cactus_6 = "values"

cactus_5 = "are"

cactus_4 = "not"

cactus_3 = "relevant"

cactus_2 = "right"

cactus_1 = "now"

cmd = '[' + ','.join(["cactus_%s" % x for x in range(1,7)]) + ']'

eval(cmd)

['now', 'right', 'relevant', 'not', 'are', 'values']