hello,here is my idea: var(): input var name (str), outputs var value example: >>>count1=1.34 >>>var('count',1) 1.34thank you and have a nice day! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20140102/df5470f3/attachment.html>