>> > In fact I want to create a list of variables from the list of strings >> > >> > Example: ['var1', 'var2', 'var3'....] - list of strings >> >> Do you know about "dictionaries" yet?
> Yes. I know about dictionaries. Hello, Can you show us an example of the kind of dictionary usage you've used before? I'm skirting really indirectly on this one, because I'm still not sure where the difficulty is in applying dictionaries to this problem. Just to hint at this: the dictionary my_vars shown below: ########################### my_vars = {} my_vars['v1'] = 'tesuji' my_vars['v2'] = ['anti-suji'] my_vars['v3'] = {'atari' : 1 } ########################### is one that directs string names 'v1', 'v2', and 'v3' to some arbitrary values. We can later look things up in the dictionary by providing the name of the key: ############################## print "I'm reading James Davies' %s" % my_vars['v1'] print "I don't yet have %s" % my_vars['v2'][0] print "%s!" % my_vars['v3'].keys()[0] ############################## _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor