Equivalent of TCL's "subst" ?

[gamename]

Hi,

In TCL, you can do things like:
set foobar "HI!"
set x foo
set y bar
subst $$x$y
HI!

Is there a way to do this type of evaluation in python?

TIA,
-T

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