variable hell

[Peter Maas]

suffix = 'var'
vars()['a%s' % suffix] = 45
avar

45

Quoting from http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-76 about
the "vars" built in:

The returned dictionary should not be modified: the effects on the
corresponding symbol table are undefined.

I tried this once and it worked. This may be too naive, so thanks
for the warning

 

[Tim N. van der Leeuw]

What you could do is to create a class for this; fill it's __dict__
instance; and use custom getattr() / setattr() methods for accessing
a0, a1, a2 etc.

cheers,

--Tim