In article <2ab25f69-6017-42a6-a7ef-c71bc2ee8...@l2g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>, noydb <jenn.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How would you convert a list of strings into a list of variables using > the same name of the strings? > > So, ["red", "one", "maple"] into [red, one, maple] > > Thanks for any help! I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but explore the dictionary returned by locals(). You can do something like: loc = locals() [loc["red"], loc["one"], loc["maple"]] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list