to create variable from dict

Mon Mar 15 02:51:42 EDT 2010

On Mar 12, 8:02 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic... at sequans.com>
wrote:
> Luis M. González wrote:
> > 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/...
>> > 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
>> The answer is known: no, he should not do it :o)
>> JM- Hide quoted text -
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Thanks for your explanations.