dynamic assigments

[Seldon]

On 03/24/2011 07:39 PM, Seldon wrote:
> Hi, I have a question about generating variable assignments dynamically.
>
> I have a list of 2-tuples like this
>
> (
> (var1, value1),
> (var2, value2),
> .. ,
> )
>
> where var1, var2, ecc. are strings and value1, value2 are generic objects.
>
> Now, I would like to use data contained in this list to dynamically
> generate assignments of the form "var1 = value1", ecc where var1 is an
> identifier equal (as a string) to the 'var1' in the list.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any answer.


Thanks to everybody for yours interesting considerations.

Regarding my initial problem, I understood that using a dictionary 
mapping variable names to values probably is the best approach.