Variable by label

[Arnaud Delobelle]

rocco.ro... at gmail.com wrote:
> Is there any function which will return a variable by passing to it
> the string containing the variable's name? Something like this for
> instance:
>
> foo = some_function("foo")
>
> or perhaps it's a dictionary. I don't know, but I would really like to
> find out how it can be done. I guess it is achievable.
>
> Thank you.

There are the globals() and locals() builtins.

>>> a = 42
>>> globals()['a']
42
>>>

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Arnaud