create the name of a variable from the 1st index of the list and assign the list as its value

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This seems to be a bit difficult to explain. I wish to create the name of a variable from the 1st index of the list and assign the list as its value

as an example:

#the input is a list like below,
['name_of_variable','value1','value2','value3','value4','value5']

#the output would be as below,
name_of_variable = ['value1','value2','value3','value4','value5']

Any suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '21 at 11:11

You can use locals to create a named variable this way

>>> data = ['name_of_variable','value1','value2','value3','value4','value5']
>>> locals()[data[0]] = data[1:]
>>> name_of_variable
['value1', 'value2', 'value3', 'value4', 'value5']

Though as a design, I would personally discourage this. If you want to map a key to value(s) I would prefer to use a dict

>>> items = {data[0]: data[1:]}
>>> items
{'name_of_variable': ['value1', 'value2', 'value3', 'value4', 'value5']}

That's great . thank you @Cory Kramer – user15405611 Mar 24 '21 at 11:25 — user15405611, Mar 24 '21 at 11:25

create the name of a variable from the 1st index of the list and assign the list as its value

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