Creating variables from dicts

[Arnaud Delobelle]

vsoler <vicente.soler at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have two dicts
>
> n={'a', 'm', 'p'}
> v={1,3,7}

These are sets, not dicts.

> and I'd like to have
>
> a=1
> m=3
> p=7

As sets are unordered, you may as well have

   a = 3
   m = 7
   p = 1

or any other permutation.  You need some sequences instead.  E.g.

   n = ['a', 'm', 'p']
   v = (1, 3, 7)

Then you can do:

   for name, value in zip(n, v):
       globals()[name] = value

After this the names, 'a', 'm' and 'p' will be bound to the values you
want in the global namespace.  However, it is almost always a bad idea
to do this.  Can you explain why you need to do this?

-- 
Arnaud