Convert String Name to a variable name

[Gunnar Hurtig]

How do I convert a string name into a variable name?
example

L=['a','b']

I want to create two variables from L so that I can assign values to them.

say

a=4
b=5

[bvdet]

Following are a couple of ways:

>>> L=['a','b']
>>> V=[4,5]
>>> for var in zip(L,V):
...     exec "%s=%s" % (var[0], var[1])
...     
>>> a
4
>>> b
5
>>> V=[6,7]
>>> dd = dict(zip(L,V))
>>> dd
{'a': 6, 'b': 7}
>>> globals().update(dd)
>>> a
6
>>> b
7
>>> 

Why would you want to do this?

[Gunnar Hurtig]

It was the %s=%s %(a,z) that I over looked
Problem solved!

[Gunnar Hurtig]

Actually I need something like this:

L=['G123','G452', 'Had3'......] #Not sure whats going to be in L until run

into

G123= [112,234,113,..] #Values in list determined during run.
G452=[456, 789,0,0...]

and then:

L2=[G123,G452,Had3...]

then send L2 off to another def with the named variables G123 ....

Is this a little clearer??

[bvdet]

Something like this:

L=['G123','G452', 'Had3']
for item in L:
    globals().update({item: return_a_list()})
 
for item in L:
    print eval(item)

I do not understand what you are doing, but I think you should consider organizing and passing data with dictionaries.