Eirik wrote: > How can I do what I would do like this: > > set a 12 > set b 144 > eval a*a == b > > in Tcl? > -- I don't understand the question (please rephrase it...). But the Python equivalent of the three statements above probably is: a=12 b=144 a*a==b You could have guessed that, no? --Irmen