Newbie Question

[Steve Holden]

[posted and mailed]

Uday wrote:
> Hi,
>   I would like to know how can I create and assign variables by 
> de-referencing the values in other variable in Python. 
> 
> I can illustrate what I mean by an example of perl
> 
> $a = "task_id";
> $i = "1";
> $c = $a."_".$i;
> $$c = 2;
> print "$task_id_1\n";
> # Gives the answer as 2
> 
> My problem is that I need to dynamically generate a unique 
> variable within a for loop in Python. The name of the variable
> should be appended by the index of the loop. 
> 
> In the above example if $i were an array index, then as we
> traverse through the array, a unique variable is defined.
> 
> Is there any way to do it in Python??
> 
> I am not in python.users mailing list, please reply to me directly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Uday

It's bad enough doing that in Perl, but in Python you should definitely 
use a dictionary (in Perl read "hash") for applications like this. What 
do you see as the advantage of your code over using a hash?

regards
  Steve
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