Erwan VITIERE wrote: > I want to convert the contents of a string into name of variable. > For example: > > var1="toto" > ... > toto=5 > print toto why? Python works better if you use it to write Python code. the Python solution is to use a dictionary: key1 = "toto" data = {} data["toto"] = 5 print data[key1] </F>