naming objects from string

[Terry Reedy]

Re: naming objects from string


"James Stroud" <jstroud@mbi.uc la.eduwrote in message
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Depends on your namespace, but for the local namespace, you can use this:
>
pya = object()
pya
<object object at 0x40077478>
pylocals()['bob'] = a
pybob
<object object at 0x40077478>

If you put this code within a function, it probably will not work.
locals() is usually a *copy* of the local namespace and writes do not write
back to the namespace itself.

tjr

[Roberto Bonvallet]

Re: naming objects from string

manstey wrote:
[...]

bob_apple=()
bob_orange=()
..
pete_red=()
>
I then populate the 9 tuples with data [...]

You cannot "populate" a tuple. If you want to insert the values
individually, you have to use a list. If you insert them all together,
like this: bob_apple = (1, 2, ..., 9), you don't need to initialize
bob_apple with an empty tuple.

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Roberto Bonvallet