> > And for that matter a way to create a > > dictionary from a set of variables (local or global). > > You have to be more specific: there are {} displays and dict(args) call > and other methods. Read the manual.
My desire is to take a set of data items in an alpha-numeric range and oput them into a dictionary i.e., x1=1 x2=20 x3=33 to yield the dictionary { 'x1':1, 'x2':20, 'x3':33 } without having to type in as above but instead invoke a function maybe with syntax of dd=make_dict('x1--x99') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list