How to do this? - newbie

[Adrian Eyre]

>> But it seems you really want to be able to retrieve the numeric
>> value using the symbol 'a' as a key, and that's what dictionaries
>> are for.

> In fact that is exactly what I ended up doing (using a dictionary) and I
may
> just keep it that way. I was just wondering how to do it the way I asked.

Python 1.5.2+ (#0, Oct 13 1999, 15:40:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> a=('x', 1)
>>> exec(a[0] + '=' + str(a[1]))
>>> x
1

Don't use it though. Using eval() or exec() is dangerous.

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