perl: ${$i) , python: ?

[Hans Nowak]

Maxes wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> How to create variables with dynamic names ?
> simple example on perl:
> #! /usr/bin/perl
> @kl=qw(t1 t2);
> foreach $i (@kl) {
>        ${$i}=3;
> }
> print "$t1 $t2\n";
> 
> #result would be "3 3"

It's questionable whether this is good coding practice, but
the Pythonic equivalent would be something like

>>> kl = ["t1", "t2"]
>>> for i in kl:
	exec "%s = 3" % (i)
>>> print t1, t2
3 3
>>> 

Or you can mess with the locals() or globals() dictionaries,
but this is not guaranteed to work.

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