Creating Variables Based Off A String

Question

I have a string that reads "blah blah @~@ blah blah @~@ blah blah @~@"

How could I make it so that it creates a variable(string) for each '@~@' that feature in the string?

In this example I would end up with three variables - split1, split2 and split3

Answer 1

try something like this

str = "blah blah @~@ blah blah @~@ blah blah @~@";
split = str.split('@~@');

then you can access the individual values as:

print(split[0],split[1],split[2])

Output:

'blah blah ' ' blah blah ' ' blah blah '

Answer 2

As Joao said, and you also suggested in your question. You can use str.split to create a list of names. Rather than creating variable names based on these it is much more "pythonic" to create a dictionary based on these. i.e.

str = "name1 @~@ name2 @~@ name3";

x = str.split('@~@');

print x



d = dict((x[n],0) for n in xrange(0, len(x), 1))

print d

You could use exec but I would strongly advise against it.