On 30 Jul., 16:51, mmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found code to undo a dictionary association. > > def undict(dd, name_space=globals()): > for key, value in dd.items(): > exec "%s = %s" % (key, repr(value)) in name_space > > So if i run > > >>> dx= { 'a':1, 'b': 'B'} > >>> undict(dx) > > I get>>> print A, B > > 1 B > > Here, a=1 and b='B' > > This works well enough for simple tasks and I understand the role of > globals() as the default names space, but creating local variables is > a problem.
Python is lexically scoped. You can't create locals at runtime. > Also having no output arguemtns to undict() seems > counterintuitive. Also, the function fails if the key has spaces or > operand characters (-,$,/,%). Python names can't have punctuation with the exception of underscores. > Finally I know I will have cases where > not clearing (del(a,b)) each key-value pair might create problems in a > loop. > > So I wonder if anyone has more elegant code to do the task that is > basically the opposite of creating a dictionary from a set of > globally assigned variables. And for that matter a way to create a > dictionary from a set of variables (local or global). Note I am not > simply doing and undoing dict(zip(keys,values)) May I ask what's wrong with having namespaces in a language? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list