Copy/assign a Pandas dataframe based on their name in a for loop - pandas

Question

I am relatively new with python - and I am struggling to do the following:
I have a set of different data frames, with sequential naming (df_i), which I want to access in a for loop based on their name (with an string), how can I do that? e.g.
df_1 = pd.read_csv('...')
df_2 = pd.read_csv('...')
df_3 = pd.read_csv('...')
....
n_df = 3
for i in range(len(n_df)):
df_namestr= 'df_' + str(i+1)
# ---------------------
df_temp = df_namestr
# ---------------------
# Operate with df_temp. For i+1= 1, df_temp should be df_1
Kind regards,
DF

Answer 1

You can try something like that:
for n in range(1, n_df+1):
df_namestr = f"df_{n}"
df_tmp = locals().get(df_namestr)
if not isinstance(df_tmp, pd.DataFrame):
continue
print(df_namestr)
print(df_tmp)
Refer to the documentation of locals() to know more.

Answer 2

Would it be better to approach the accessing of multiple dataframes by reading them into a list?
You could put all the csv files required in a subfolder and read them all in. Then they are in a list and you can access each one as an item in that list.
Example:
import pandas as pd
import glob
path = r'/Users/myUsername/Documents/subFolder'
csv_files = glob.glob(path + "/*.csv")
dfs = []
for filename in csv_files:
df = pd.read_csv(filename)
dfs.append(df)
print(len(dfs))
print(dfs[1].head())