"James Stroud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Depends on your namespace, but for the local namespace, you can use this: > > py> a = object() > py> a > <object object at 0x40077478> > py> locals()['bob'] = a > py> bob > <object object at 0x40077478>
If you put this code within a function, it probably will not work. locals() is usually a *copy* of the local namespace and writes do not write back to the namespace itself. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
