On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get a construct like this: > > form=FieldStorage(None, None, [MiniFieldStorage('name1', 'Val1'), > MiniFieldStorage('name2', 'Val2'), MiniFieldStorage('name3', 'Val3')]) > > when I need to assign the variable name2 the value Val2
You can probably do this with some kind of list comprehension, but I recommend against it, if this has come from a web form. You do NOT want end users having the power to set variables. Keep it in a separate object (such as 'form') such that you must always be explicit about fetching form data. PHP has learned the risks; here's a decent summary: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list