On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Seldon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I have a question about generating variable assignments dynamically.
This can frequently be a code smell. > I have a list of 2-tuples like this > > ( > (var1, value1), > (var2, value2), > .. , > ) > > where var1, var2, ecc. are strings and value1, value2 are generic objects. > > Now, I would like to use data contained in this list to dynamically generate > assignments of the form "var1 = value1", ecc where var1 is an identifier > equal (as a string) to the 'var1' in the list. > > Is there a way to achieve this ? Is there a reason you can't or don't want to use a dict or object attributes instead? Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
