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[Harvey Greenberg]

elementary ques...I set
s.name = ["a","b"]
s.value = [3,5]

I get error that s is not defined. How do I define s and proceed to
give its attributes?

 

[Miki Tebeka]

s.name = ["a","b"]

s.value = [3,5]

I get error that s is not defined. How do I define s and proceed to
give its attributes?

Either you create a class and use __init__:
class S:
def __init__(self, name, value):
self.name = name
self.value = value

or create a generic object and stick attributes to it:
class Object(object):
pass

s = Object()
s.name = ["a","b"]
s.value = [3,5]

I highly recommend going over the tutorial - http://docs.python.org/tutorial/