Assignments and Variable Substitution

[Steve Holden]

Evan Klitzke wrote:
> On 8/13/07, brad <byte8bits at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to do something like this:
>>
>> var = '123'
>> %s = [], %var
>>
>> So that, in the end, var is '123' and an empty list is named '123' as
>> well. The list assignments are created during a loop.
> 
> You can't assign a variable whose name is 123, but you can do this
> sort of thing with setattr.
> 
And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'?

regards
  Steve
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