Joan Miller wrote: > How to set local variables based on dictionary contents?
>>> def f(**d): ... for k, v in d.iteritems(): exec "%s = v" % k ... return locals() ... >>> f(a=42, b="yadda") {'a': 42, 'k': 'b', 'b': 'yadda', 'd': {'a': 42, 'b': 'yadda'}, 'v': 'yadda'} >>> f(**{"print 'warning: this can execute arbitrary code'; a":42}) warning: this can execute arbitrary code {'a': 42, 'k': "print 'warning: this can execute arbitrary code'; a", 'd': {"print 'warning: this can execute arbitrary code'; a": 42}, 'v': 42} Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list