Create a lengthy list of variable names in python with for loop

Question

I have a bunch of data frames whose names are Actuals_17, Actuals_18,...Actuals45 . I would like to create a list of these variables. I know that it can be created by manually typing:

varlist = [Actuals_17,Actuals_18,Actuals19,Actuals20]

However, it would not result in a neat code if the number of variables are large. Is there a method to make the varlist with a for loop?

Answer 1

You can use python built-in globals() function which returns a dictionary representing the current global symbol table.

varlist = [globals()[f'Actuals_{i}'] for i in range(17, 46)]