> i.e. in foxpro, some code like following: > a="I am a" > b="a" > print &b > > may print the content of variable a. > Can one do like this in python? So print b would yield "a" and print &b would yield the value of variable a? If so then try: >>> a = "I am a" >>> b = "a" >>> print b a >>> print eval(b) I am a Does that do? Alan g.