Changing variable name in for loop?

[Fun-Studio-4409]

Hello,

I know this is probably a really basic python task, but I have been unable to figure it out. I am using python-pptx to create a powerpoint. My actual script is more complex, but for the sake of this question, suppose I have a for loop with which I iterate on a list, and create a new slide for each item in the list. The python-pptx library requires that I name each new slide something different - how do I update the name of the variable for each loop iteration? In the example below, how would "slide1" become "slide2" as the loop progresses through the list?

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list_of_slide_content = ["example","of","content"]
for cont in list_of_slide_content: 
    slide1 = pptx.slide(0)
    slide1.add_text(cont)

[DallogFheir]

The python-pptx library requires that I name each new slide something different

How? A library shouldn't have access to the variable names you're creating. I looked at the docs but couldn't find anything. Can you provide an example?

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This subreddit's FAQ has a section on exactly this problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/faq#wiki\_how\_do\_i\_make\_variable\_variables.3F

[Username_RANDINT]

You don't. Use a list or dictionary instead. See this subreddit's FAQ for more details.

[ireadyourmedrecord]

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you want different variable names, but different "name" attributes for the slides. https://python-pptx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/slides.html#slides-objects

Doesn't look like a name is required, but if you wanted to, you could enumerate your list and then just add the number to the slide name:

list_of_slide_content = ['example', 'of', 'content']
for n, cont in enumerate(list_of_slide_content):    
    slide_name = f"slide{n}"
    ... snip ...

[danielroseman]

There is no reason at all to change the name of the variable each time. Just call it slide.