Thank you all for the reply. Actually yes this was a confusing question, and borne out of trying to make a shortcut. I didnt ask to convert the contents of var into a string. All I needed was to get the literal equivalent "var" because I needed to use it in another dict object - whose keys i named the same (eg 'var') for convenience. Instead i ended up complicating stuff.
I resolved this by doing things differently with (if - elif - else). Sorry for the confusion - but thanks all for answering - i can use a code or two of what you have shared! On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2013-08-23, Jake Angulo <jake.ang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a list *var* which after some evaluation I need to refer > > to *var* as a string. > > You must make a str version of var. > > > Pseudocode: > > > > var = ['a', 'b' , 'c' , 'd'] > > adict = dict(var='string', anothervar='anotherstring') > > anotherdict = dict() > > if <condition>: > > anotherdict[akey] = adict['var'] > > anotherdict[akey] = adict[str(var)] > > Will actually work, though you might prefer: > > anotherdict[akey] = adict[''.join(var)] > > Try them out and see. > > -- > Neil Cerutti > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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