i want to turn "a" to value. like:
"a" = 8
How do I "take down" the quotes and make it as value?
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You can use globals()['a'] = 8 though there are usually better solutions for this. Also exec('a = 8') works, but don't do it.
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I'm not sure what you mean, but in Python 3 it isn't possible to assign a value to a string...
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vnikonov_63
I think the author meant to assign a value to a variable with a name a. This could be beneficial, when you would like to create strings a,b,c,d, ... and assign different values to them, based on their names.
A string literal can not be changed. Nor can a str value of any sort. Even strings stored in values such as:
a = "some string"
The string itself "some string" can not be changed. What the identifier a is bound to can be changed though:
a = "some other string"
But no string has been changed. We just changed what object the identifier a refers to.
