A good python coder would probably not choose to pollute his name space like that. My choice would be to assign the elements of "data" to a dictionary indexed by the strings in varlist like this:
vardict = dict( zip( varlist, data ) ) and reference "var1" as: vardict['var1'] Happy Deer wrote: > Dear all- > > I wonder whether there is a way in Python which can do what "eval" in > Matlab does. > Say, varlist is a 1 by k tuple/list, which contains strings for > variable names. > For example, varlist=['var1','var2',...'vark'] > data is a n by k matrix. > I want to assign each column in data to each variable in varlist and > get var1=data[:,1]... vark=data[:,k] > > Anyone knows how to do this? > > Fangwen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
