changing a strig to a variable

[Paul Rubin]

"Raibatak Das" <rd54 at cornell.edu> writes:
> this might be a silly question but i would greatly appreciate an answer.
> is there any way to convert a string to a variable name. that is, suppose
> i have x = 'var' and i want to do, say, var=13 is there an easy way to do
> so?

vars()[x]=13