Re: [Tutor] from string to variable name

2006-10-05 Thread wesley chun
On 10/5/06, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, i have a string variable that contains a name that I want to use as > a variablename setattr() won't work because that's only for objects which have attributes. you're talking about creating a (global or local) variable. i will also reco

Re: [Tutor] from string to variable name

2006-10-05 Thread Luke Paireepinart
frank h. wrote: > hello, i have a string variable that contains a name that I want to > use as a variablename > putting aside questions of why I would like to do that - i this > possible at all? > > so I want to assign a value to a variable whos name is available only > as a string to me. > tha