On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Michael Pardee <python-l...@open-sense.com> wrote: > > But what would be "the python way" to accomplish "list of variables" > functionality? >
You're looking for namespaces, AKA dicts. >>> vars = {} >>> vars['a'] = 1 >>> vars['b'] = 2 >>> mylist = ['a', 'b'] >>> print [vars[i] for i in mylist] # Here's your dereference [1,2] >>> vars['a'] = 3 >>> print [vars[i] for i in mylist] [3,2] -- Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list