to create variable from dict

[Luis M. González]

On Mar 12, 10:59 am, hiral <hiralsmaill... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to create variables which name matches with dict key?
>
> For example:
> dict1 = {"abc":'1", "def":"2"}
>
> Now I am looking to have variable name abc and it's value be '1' etc.
>
> Pl. suggest.
>
> Thank you.

Check out this thread (very recent):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bb1797ffb6fc3bd7/25fe94103c7a231f?lnk=gst&q=luis+variables#25fe94103c7a231f

Short answer: you can update globals() with a dictionary, as follows:

globals().update( dict1 )

Then you'll have each key-value pair as variables in the global
namespace.
The question is: should you do it?

Luis