pretty basic: get variable name from list of strings?

[Max M]

Terry Reedy wrote:


> g = globals() #
> for i in range(len(horses)):
>    g['horse_'+str(i)] = horses[i]
> 
> However, I strongly question whether you *really* want to do that.
> Accessing a list of names such as horses thru an index is much easier
> that thru a dict keyed with sequential strings.  Cluttering globals is
> also a bad idea, and above will not work with locals().


Not using a dicts and trying to get variables from generated variable 
names can give all kind of funny side effects.

What if somebody passes a list like:

horses = ['str', 'int', 'float', 'dict', 'repr'] # etc ...

This will certainly cause unintended behaviour.

regards Max M