For simplicity sake, let's say I need to do something like this (for whatever reason):
<prompt for name of variable in someother program space you wish to retrieve> <go retrieve the value from that other program> <assign the retrieved value to a variable of the same name in Python>
If I had a situation like this, I'd probably store my 'variables' as keys in a dict, e.g.:
>>> bindings = {}
>>> for i in range(3):
... name = raw_input('Name: ')
... value = int(raw_input('Value for %r: ' % name))
... bindings[name] = value
...
<... after inputting 'eggs', '7', 'badger', '42', 'spam', '13' ...>
>>> bindings
{'eggs': 7, 'badger': 42, 'spam': 13}Once you have the 'variables' in a dict, you can just use the dict values in any expressions you need.
>>> bindings['eggs'] * bindings['badger'] 294
I am just trying to understand the language and see what it can do.
Well, it can do a lot, but the folks on this list are helpful enough to mention when things you *can* do aren't necessarily things you *want* to do. ;)
Enjoy your explorations!
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
