setting variables from a tuple NEWB

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Thu Jul 6 11:26:30 EDT 2006


In <jp9rg.17164$Uc3.15592 at tornado.texas.rr.com>, Paul McGuire wrote:

>>>> tupGlob = (('VOWELS','aeiou'),('CONS','bcdfgh'))
>>>> for nam,val in tupGlob: locals()[nam]=val
> ...
>>>> VOWELS
> 'aeiou'
>>>> CONS
> 'bcdfgh'
>>>>

Little warning:  It works only on module level as assigning to `locals()`
return value in functions and methods has no effect on the "real" locals.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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