manstey wrote: > Hi, > > If I have a string, how can I give that string name to a python object, > such as a tuple. > > e.g. > > a = 'hello' > b=(1234) > > and then a function > name(b) = a > > which would mean: > hello=(1234) > > is this possible? >
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> A similar approach can be used for the global namespace. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list