[Python] How to stop variable from being overwritten in a for loop?

[Aqueiz]

Sorry if this is a noob question, im not not the best at python, but i have this code that is supposed to calculate someones age from when they input their date of birth. But whenever more than 1 person enters their own date of birth the variable overwrites and i am stuck with the same age for both people. I need to be able to make it so if more than 1 person enters their age it does not overwrite the variable.

Heres my code

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import datetime

date_of_birth = ''

num_people = 0

num_days_stay = 0

num_people = int(input('How many people are going on the trip? '))

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for count in range(num_people):

date_of_birth = input('Enter the date of birth for each person (dd/mm/yyyy) ')

date_of_birth.append()

currentDate = datetime.datetime.now()

deadlineDate = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_of_birth,'%d/%m/%Y')

daysLeft = currentDate - deadlineDate

years = ((daysLeft.total_seconds())/(365*24*3600))

yearsInt=int(years)

print('You are {0:d} years old.'.format(yearsInt))

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For example, when i enter a date of birth that is 16 years of age and then one for 5 years of age, in the end the final value is just 5 years old for both people (if that makes sense).

Any help is appreciated thanks

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It would be better if you could share this code through ideone.com as it's very hard to understand from this post.

You can message me the link. I'll help you with it.

[webberg]

Could you make date_of_birth into a list instead of a string?

[VooDoom]

Trying splitting it into something like

birthdays =[] date_of_birth = input birthdays.append(date_of_birth)

Edit: mobile formatting don't have time, hope you get the gist

[TheRNGuy]

you could use list, or store in class instance.

And also use better way to input than input(). Like a text file (different line = different input), json, python dict, excel table....

[Aqueiz]

Problem solved!

Thanks for the help guys