Derivative of string as a name of list or dictionary (or class?)

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

    Alex> Sure, but the frown is first of all against the very task
    Alex> that the OP wants to perform: setting arbitrary names in the
    Alex> global space.

    Alex> What if one of the name is 'print'?  Boom.  Python has a
    Alex> couple of dozen keywords -- what ensures against attempts to
    Alex> redefine one?


While I agree whole heartedly that it's best to do this on attributes
of a class, what do you think of the following approach to
manipulating globals, which I discovered doing a little more reading
on this issue in the c.l.python archives.

name = 'seq'
val = ['John', 'Hunter', 'was', 'here']
globals()[name] = val
print seq

globals()['print'] = 'Clobber?'
print seq  #no clobber

John Hunter