help me

[dataangel]

Marius Bernklev wrote:

>chrispatton at gmail.com (Chris Patton) writes:
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>>Hey everybody. I am writing a program that requires the user to make
>>the name for variables inside the program. For example:
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>>>>>exec raw_input()+' = 34'
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>>However, I don't want to have to use the "exec" statement. Thanks for
>>any help!
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>Are you sure you don't want to use a plain dict for this?  And if so, why?
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Why don't you want to use exec? Just curious. That's the normal way to 
get a string to python code as far as I know.