Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 18:08:26 EST 2007

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gamename wrote:
> In TCL, you can do things like:
> set foobar "HI!"
> set x foo
> set y bar
> subst $$x$y
> HI!
> 
> Is there a way to do this type of evaluation in python?

If this is at the outer-most scope, you can use globals()::

     >>> foobar = 'HI!'
     >>> x = 'foo'
     >>> y = 'bar'
     >>> globals_dict = globals()
     >>> globals_dict[x + y]
     'HI!'

That said, why do you think you want to do this?

STeVe

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