implicit variable declaration and access

Ali Razavi arazavi at swen.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jun 13 18:51:29 EDT 2005


Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Ali Razavi wrote:
> 
>> Is there any reflective facility in python that I can use to define a 
>> variable with a name stored in another variable ?
>>
>> like I have :
>> x = "myVarName"
>>
>> what can I do to declare a new variable with the name of the string 
>> stored in x. And how can I access that implicitly later ?
> 
> 
> Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?
> 
> tom
> 
Have you ever heard of meta programming ?
I guess if you had, it wouldn't seem this odd to you.



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