Rene Pijlman wrote: > dirvine: >> I would like to create a dictionary based on a variable [...] > > And what seems to be the problem? > I think that this is his problem:
>>> 'somename'={} SyntaxError: can't assign to literal But I'm puzzled why he wants that route, while I'm still pretty new to programming, I usually smell a design fault when I want to try to squeeze a literal name into a object variable (am I'm saying this correct?). Most of the time nesting dictionaries will do the trick for me: >>> sharedDict=dict() >>> sharedDict['somename']=dict() >>> sharedDict['someothername']=dict() >>> sharedDict {'somename': {}, 'someothername': {}} >>> -- mph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list