John Salerno wrote: > If I want to have a list like this: > > [(first_name, 'First Name:'), (last_name, 'Last Name:').....] > > where the first part of each tuple is a variable name and the second > part is a label for the user to see, such as a form like this: > > First Name: ________ > Last Name: ________ > > (the variables would store whatever information is entered in the text > boxes to the right of each label. I'm doing it this way so I can write a > loop to construct my GUI components). > > how would I go about putting these variable names in a list? I know I > can't leave them as above, but if I put them in as a string, then how do > I later "transform" them into an actual variable for assign, such as: > > first_name = widget.get_text() > > Is there some kind of idiom that does this sort of work? > > Thanks.
Not sure but mmaybe this older post might help: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2005-January/035232.html JM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
