Bill Mill wrote: >py> alpha = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' >py> for i, digraph in enumerate(sorted([''.join((x, y)) for x in alpha > ... for y in [''] + [z for z in alpha]], key=len)): > ... locals()[digraph] = i + i > ...
It would probably be better to get in the habit of writing globals()[x] = y instead of locals()[x] = y You almost never want to do the latter[1]. The only reason it works in this case is because, at the module level, locals() is globals(). You probably already knew this, but I note it here to help any newbies avoid future confusion. Steve [1] For 99% of use cases. Modifying locals() might be useful if you're just going to pass it to another function as a dict. But I think I've seen *maybe* 1 use case for this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list