attach variable to string

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• Josh

  May 2017 edited May 2017

  Hi Pia,

   port.sendMessage("overview " + str(var.jar)) 
  

  Cheers
• Pia

  May 2017

  Thanks a lot!!
• Pia

  May 2017

  Thanks again. Now I have another, very much related, problem.
  So some of my variables have this format (in the inline-script):
  [color_of_draw[jar_nr]]
  (So the variable names are color_of_draw1, color_of_draw2, and so on.)
  I try to send those to the serial port aswell. Here is how I tried that:
  color_of_draw_var = "color_of_draw" + str(var.jar_nr) port.sendMessage("Draw Jar" + str(var.jar_nr) + "Draw Marble" + str(var.color_of_draw_var))
  So, as you see, I tried to create a variable color_of_draw_var which I then use. But it doesn't work. It sais "The variable 'color_of_draw_var' does not exist."

  How can I create that variable?
• eduard

  May 2017

  Hi Pia,

  you create a variable called color_of_draw_var and in the next line you use a variable called var.color_of_draw_var. Those are not the same, you see?

  Eduard

  
• Josh

  May 2017

  Hi Pia, color_of_draw_var (first line of your code) is unequal to var.color_of_draw_var (second line of your code)

  Cheers
• Pia

  May 2017

  Thank you! It works (I didn't know that I didn't had to put the ´´var.´´), but I noticed it's not what I wanted.

  So, if I do it like this:
  color_of_draw_var = "color_of_draw" + var.jar_nr port.sendMessage("Draw Jar" + str(var.jar_nr) + " Draw Marble " + str(color_of_draw_var))
  It prints for example (if the Jar was 2) color_of_draw2. I see that that makes sense, but I didn't want it to print color_of_draw2 as a text but the contents of my variable called color_of_draw2.

  Here are my variables:
  
  And I would like to print the contents of those (to the serial port).

  Any idea how I can do that?
  Thanks!
• eduard

  May 2017

  Replace:

  color_of_draw_var = "color_of_draw" + var.jar_nr

  With

  color_of_draw_var = exp.get("color_of_draw" + var.jar_nr)

  
• Pia

  May 2017

  Thanks a lot, it works!!