Hi, But this doesn't work if I do:
a=object() x='bob' locals()[x] = a How can I do this? James Stroud wrote: > manstey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If I have a string, how can I give that string name to a python object, > > such as a tuple. > > > > e.g. > > > > a = 'hello' > > b=(1234) > > > > and then a function > > name(b) = a > > > > which would mean: > > hello=(1234) > > > > is this possible? > > > > Depends on your namespace, but for the local namespace, you can use this: > > py> a = object() > py> a > <object object at 0x40077478> > py> locals()['bob'] = a > py> bob > <object object at 0x40077478> > > A similar approach can be used for the global namespace. > > James > > -- > James Stroud > UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics > Box 951570 > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
