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Python recognise with and without quotation marks

I have this line of code that works.

price = df1.loc[:, ['price', 'date']]

I need to emulate this is as a loop with other metrics like sales and revenue. Is this possible? i.e How do I get Python to reference a word in the list both with and without quotation marks?

listx = [price,sales, revenue]
for a in listx:
    a = df1.loc[:, ['a', 'date']]
Solution

  • IIUC, you could do something like this, using a list comprehension:

    listx = ['price','sales', 'revenue']
price, sales, revenue=[df1.loc[:, [a, 'date']] for a in listx]

    For a general way, this could be an approach using globals:

    listx = ['price','sales', 'revenue']
for a in listx:
    globals().update({a:df1.loc[:, [a, 'date']]})