Variable by label

[Duncan Booth]

rocco.rossi at gmail.com wrote:

> Is there any function which will return a variable by passing to it
> the string containing the variable's name? Something like this for
> instance:
> 
> foo = some_function("foo")
> 
> or perhaps it's a dictionary. I don't know, but I would really like to
> find out how it can be done. I guess it is achievable.
> 
> Thank you.
> 

 vars()["foo"]

but if you are doing this you are almost certainly making your life harder 
than it needs to be. Usually you really just want to keep the values in a 
dict.

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com