setting variables from a tuple NEWB

[Paul McGuire]

"manstey" <manstey at csu.edu.au> wrote in message
news:1152184794.016220.234220 at q16g2000cwq.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> If I have a tuple like this:
>
> tupGlob = (('VOWELS','aeiou'),('CONS','bcdfgh'))
>
> is it possible to write code using tupGlob that is equivalent to:
> VOWELS = 'aeiou'
> CONS = ''bcdfgh'
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>

Try this.
-- Paul

>>> tupGlob = (('VOWELS','aeiou'),('CONS','bcdfgh'))
>>> for nam,val in tupGlob: locals()[nam]=val
...
>>> VOWELS
'aeiou'
>>> CONS
'bcdfgh'
>>>