creating variable names by adding 2 strings?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Lee" <lee.reilly at ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:3A6BAA32.370A2C00 at ntlworld.com...
> while (p!=0):
>         p+`p`= string.replace(component[control], ",", "")
>         # e.g. I want 'p1 = string.replace.blah...'

Why?  What's wrong with 'q[p] = ...'?  To answer your question, it's
impossible for local variables.  For global variables, assign to
'globals()['p' + p]'.  For attributes, use 'setattr'.


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