Hi It's me
a = 3 y = "a" print eval(y)
To get 'a' to be 4 here, you would say
a = 4
I am not sure why you would want to do otherwise? Perhaps you could sketch out a little more about what you are trying to do? That would help a lot. Are you aiming for something like pointer emulation with simple datatypes?
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