On Aug 14, 12:45 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote: > Evan Klitzke wrote: > > On 8/13/07, brad <byte8b... at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'd like to do something like this: > > >> var = '123' > >> %s = [], %var > And why would you want a variable whose name is '123'? ... and thus continues the search for private variables in Python.