string to variable name

[Alexander Schmolck]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:

> >   FILE = open("<mytextfile");
> >   while (<FILE>){
> >     /^(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\w+)$/;
> >     inst.$2 = $1;
> >   }
> > }
> 
> 
> > Is there any way to (easily) achieve what I want to do in python?
> 
> Sure: you can do it even shorter and almost as unreadably with (UNTESTED):
> 
> for line in file("mytextfile"):
>     inst.__dict__.update(dict([line.split()[:2]]))

make that ``split()[1::-1]`` (you have key second, value first, right?)

(this will only work in python2.3, though -- but then setattr is much better
here anyway)

'as