On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 02:45:04AM -0500, Keith Winston wrote: > And to beat that poor horse in the same example, my current way of doing > that would be: > > for alist in "lista", "listb": > print(alist, eval(alist))
Since you know both pieces, namely the name of the entity "alist" and its actual symbol aka alist, why not do something like: Lists = {"lista": lista, "listb": lisb} and use Lists[x] ... HTH Asokan Pichai _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor