assigning values to array element

[Paul Rubin]

crescent_au at yahoo.com (Ben) writes:
> This may sound easy but I'm having trouble assigning values to array
> element. My problem is as follows:
> 
> m = ['Peter', 'Sam', 'Dave', 'Carl']
> for o in m:
>   # Here first o is 'Peter'.. I want to do something like this:
>   Peter = 10
>   
>   # if i do %s %o = 10, it gives me error...
> 
> How can I do it?

Um, you probably really don't want to do that.  See the docs about
how Python dictionaries work.  Then try something like:

 m = ['Peter', 'Sam', 'Dave', 'Carl']
 table = {}  # note these are curly braces
 for o in m:
   table[o] = 10