A variables variables

[Benjamin]

On Aug 23, 7:25 pm, Gandalf <goldn... at gmail.com> wrote:
> how can I declare a variable with another variable  name?
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> for example  I will use PHP:
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> $a= "hello";
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> $a_hello="baybay";
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> print ${'a_'.$a)  //output: baybay

Doing this sort of thing in Python is very anti idiom.
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> how can i do it with no Arrays using  python

Why would you not want to use a list? I see no reason not to.
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> thanks!