[PyQt] creating a variable number of widget

[David Beck]

I am trying to create a GUI for managing a multilingual lexical database. Every word in the database can have 1 to n meanings or senses, each of which has to have several types of information associated with it. This corresponds to a (simplified) XML structure as follows

<Lex>
	<Word>word</word>
	<Def>
		<L1>English definition</L1>
		<L2>Spanish definition</L2>
		<EG>example sentences</EG>
	</Def>
	<Def> … etc., may be iterated many times
</Lex>

What I would like to do is write a script that reads from the XML, counts the number of iterations of <Def>, and if there is more than one creates a QTabWidget for each <Def> element with QGroupBoxes and QTextEdits to display the contents of each of the subelements. It doesn't seem possible to completely automate this process using some sort of loop (repeat for the number of <Def> elements in <Lex>) because the constructors for the widgets are like this

        Fieldbook.ui.tab = QtGui.QWidget()
        Fieldbook.ui.lL1Box = QtGui.QGroupBox(Fieldbook.ui.tab)
        Fieldbook.ui.lL1Definition = QtGui.QTextEdit(Fieldbook.ui.lL1Box)
        Fieldbook.ui.lL2Box = QtGui.QGroupBox(Fieldbook.ui.tab)
        Fieldbook.ui.lL2Definition = QtGui.QTextEdit(Fieldbook.ui.lL2Box)
        Fieldbook.ui.lExampleBox = QtGui.QGroupBox(Fieldbook.ui.tab)
        Fieldbook.ui.lExamples = QtGui.QTextEdit(Fieldbook.ui.lExampleBox)

On the first iteration this is fine, but the second iteration of the loop is going to create widgets with exactly the same names. Is there someway to replace something like the ".tab" in Fieldbook.ui.tab = QtGui.QWidget() with a variable that changes with every iteration of the loop?

David