How to show a potentially infinite list in a screen

[abduhl]

Ok so the title might not be the best but here is my issue:

I have a list of "guys" in my game that can increase over time without a limit. I want to have a screen that displays every name of the guys. I tried that with a scrollable screen but i'm struggling with actually having the names show up here is what i was planning:

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screen listGuys():
    frame:
        xalign 0.5 ypos 50
        vbox:
            spacing 10
            side ("c r"):
                area (1,0,280,600)
                viewport id "my_scroller": #REMEMBER YOUR VIEWPORT ID SO THE SCROLLBAR IS PLACED FOR IT
                    draggable True mousewheel True
                    vbox:
                        spacing 5
                        for i in len(guys):
                            textbutton guys[i].name action Return(i)
                vbar value YScrollValue("my_scroller") #TAKES YOUR VIEWPORT ID AS THE ARG
            button:
                action [Jump("start")]
                text "Go Back" style "button_text"

init python:
    class Guy:
        def __init__(self, name):
            self.name=name

label start:
    $g1=Guy("Fred")
    $g2=Guy("Pep")
    $g3=Guy("Doobie")
    $guys=[g1,g2,g3]

    show screen listGuys
    pause

But nothing except for a blank frame showed up.
Eventually i got it to work with this screen:

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screen listGuys():
    frame:
        xalign 0.5 ypos 50
        vbox:
            spacing 10
            side ("c r"):
                area (1,0,280,600)
                viewport id "my_scroller": #REMEMBER YOUR VIEWPORT ID SO THE SCROLLBAR IS PLACED FOR IT
                    draggable True mousewheel True
                    vbox:
                        spacing 5
                        for i, guys in enumerate(guys):
                            textbutton guys.name action Return(i)
                vbar value YScrollValue("my_scroller") #TAKES YOUR VIEWPORT ID AS THE ARG
            button:
                action [Jump("start")]
                text "Go Back" style "button_text"

However every now and then i get the exception:

TypeError: 'Guy' not iterable

Does anyone know how i can display the list without the exception ocurring or does anyone have a better solution for my idea?

[enaielei]

Use other name than "guys" in "for i, guys". "guys" is already taken as a name for your list containing the object Guy.

[Alex]

...

For your first approach try

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for i in range(len(guys)):

[Imperf3kt]

There's also this which I came across recently.
https://youtube.com/shorts/WOxf0xumpWU?feature=share4
May be handy

[abduhl]

I found my mistake i forgot to give the screen my list now its working:)