Generate variables at run time?

[Erik Max Francis]

Byron Morgan wrote:

> Is there any way in Python to generate a new variable name based on
> data? I
> have tried the eval() function, but this gets rejected, if the
> variable
> doesn't already exist.

You could use exec.  Probably if you find yourself doing this a lot,
you're better off using a dictionary.

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