Assignments and Variable Substitution

[brad]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Evan Klitzke wrote:
>> On 8/13/07, brad <byte8bits at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to do something like this:
>>>
>>> var = '123'
>>> %s = [], %var
>>>
>>> So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
>>> well. The list assignments are created during a loop.
>>
>> You can't assign a variable whose name is 123, but you can do this
>> sort of thing with setattr.
>>
> And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'?

Just an example.