Creating variables from dicts

[Gregory Ewing]

I still don't understand why is it a bad idea in the case of
globals().
This is the only way I know to define variables programatically in the
top-level namespace, without having to do it manually one by one.

The point is that creating variables whose names are computed
at run time is usually a misguided thing to do in the first
place.

Think about it -- how are you going to *use* those variables
that you've created?

If the answer is that you're going to go looking for a way
to read the values of variables whose names are computed at
run time, you might as well not use variables at all, but
just keep their values in a dictionary.

 

[Aahz]

Actually, a tuple is made with commas...the parens are just there
to clarify the order of operations and make it easier to read

(1, 2, 3)

Almost true:
()

Parentheses are definitely needed for the empty tuple.
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