Making variable from a variable

[Karl Scalet]

Polerio Babao Jr.II wrote:

> I don't know if this question is easy or not but one thing I can say
> is
> I haven't encountered this problem yet in my entire python life. I
> just opened
> this question to the public because I've solved this kind of problem
> already
> before in my PHP life long time ago. I just want to know if it's also
> possible in Python.
> Any idea? Thanks.
> 
> in php
> 
> <?
> 
> $a = 'b';
> ${$a} = 'c';
> print "$a $b";
> 
> ?>
> 
> output is 
> 
> b c

not quite as compact:

 >>> a='b'
 >>> exec("%s='c'"%a)
 >>> print a,b

output is
b c

If/why someone want's to do it, is another question.

Karl