[Tutor] Variables of Variables

[Danny Yoo]

> Rather than storing your data as variables, you could store it in a 
> dictionary.  Then you can dynamically access data however you like..

Suggesting a dictionary here is right.

The technique in the original poster's question is deprecated and widely 
known to be a Bad Idea in Perl.  See Mark Jason Dominus's "Why it's stupid 
to use a variable as a variable name':

     http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html

So trying to simulate soft references in Python is damaging: we should do 
what we can to keep the idea from propagating.  *grin*