On Mar 12, 10:59 am, hiral <hiralsmaill... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, >> Is there any way to create variables which name matches with dict key? >> For example: > dict1 = {"abc":'1", "def":"2"} >> Now I am looking to have variable name abc and it's value be '1' etc. >> Pl. suggest. >> Thank you. Check out this thread (very recent): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bb1797ffb6fc3bd7/25fe94103c7a231f?lnk=gst&q=luis+variables#25fe94103c7a231f Short answer: you can update globals() with a dictionary, as follows: globals().update( dict1 ) Then you'll have each key-value pair as variables in the global namespace. The question is: should you do it? Luis