"chris Hynes" <cjhyne...@hotmail.com> wrote
I want the user to input a name, say "Chris". I know I can use the code: name=raw_input() I now want: "Chris"=zeros((3,3)) so that when I type: print Chris
This is a common misapprehension by beginners. But let me ask you something. Since you will be writing your program code, including the print Chris line, how will you know in advance what names your userrs are going to input?
I think you will find it easier to create a dictiobnary of user names with their associated values:
name = raw_input() names[name] = value name = raw_input("Which name was it?") print names[name] or even: for name in names: print names[name] HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor