[Tutor] Concatenating Strings into Variable Names?

[Rich Krauter]

> 
> print the_answer
> 

You can test these out:

try:
	print eval('the_answer')
except:
	"Invalid choice"

or 
print globals()['the_answer']
or
print locals()['the_answer']
or 
print globals().get('the_answer',"Not a valid choice")
or 
print locals().get('the_answer',"Not a valid choice")

I hope others comment on the right way - I'm interested in which is
considered the best, if any. The dictionary method posted by Don is good
too. The first and last two examples above provide a check for invalid
entries, similar to Don's method.
Good luck.

Rich