Best way to accommodate unknown number of variables?

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Here a kind of hidden👻 secrets.

>>> dte1 = 1
>>> dte2 = 2
>>> dte3 = 3

When make 3 variables like this Python store them in a internal dictionary called globals()
Can test this with:

>>> globals()['dte3']
3
>>> globals().get('dte1')
1

So as mention use a data structure like eg dictionary and do not make 50 variables.

>>> d = {f'dte{i}':i for i in range(0,10)}
>>> d
{'dte0': 0,
 'dte1': 1,
 'dte2': 2,
 'dte3': 3,
 'dte4': 4,
 'dte5': 5,
 'dte6': 6,
 'dte7': 7,
 'dte8': 8,
 'dte9': 9}

# Same result but now have made a own visible dictionary
>>> d['dte3']
3
>>> d.get('dte1')
1