[Python-ideas] *var()*

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Liam Marsh <liam.marsh.home at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

This is underspecified. What should it do for this code?

count = 3
def foo():
    print var('count', 1)
foo()

If the output is "1", then you're in luck and can already use
vars().get('count', 1)

Otherwise, I don't know a trivial one-liner to do it. Either way I'd
be -1 on its inclusion in Python, it encourages a bad idiom.

-- Devin