names of parameters as string

[Steve Holden]

Peter Otten wrote:

> Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> 
>>"andrea valle" <andrea.valle at unito.it> wrote in message
>>news:1CC54D90-2A40-11D9-A5B8-0003939C968C at unito.it...
>>
>>>Suppose I have a string and I'd like to create a variable with its name.
>>>How can I do that?
>>
>>globals['varname'] = 3
>>
>>difficult or impossible for function locals
> 
> 
> Not difficult - only ugly, slow, and dangerous:
> 
Not only ugly, slow and dangerous but also not guarantees to work on any 
specific implementation.

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