Python variable assignment problem

[G|N|]

Hi,

I have a little programming problem:
I have a variable 'values' that holds a dictionary with values (user, password,...)
In the actual program i want them to be assigned dynamically like this:

#the values that were given to the class
values = {'name':'test', 'user': 'me', 'password': 'hello'}


name = ""
user = ""
password = ""
#the first is the label (the same as in values), the second is the variable
#where it has to be assigned to.
watch_values = [
['name', name],
['user', user],
['password', password]
]

watch_values[0][1] = values[watch_values[0][0]]
print watch_values[0][1]
print name
print user
print password


of course this does not work because my values['name'] is stored in watch_values[0][1] and not the variable that it held before.

Is there a way to assign it to the variable instead of watch_values?

I want to make a dynamic assignment so i can automatically check if all values are filled in.

[Quikee]

If I understand what you want to do is that when you do this:
watch_values[0][1] = values[watch_values[0][0]]
that in the same time your variable 'name' gets the value that has been assigned to watch_values[0][1] (watch_values[0][1] should be identical to name)?

You can only do this "dynamically" if name, user, password variables are also declared as lists.

#the values that were given to the class
values = {'name':'test', 'user': 'me', 'password': 'hello'}


name = ["a"]
user = ["b"]
password = ["c"]
#the first is the label (the same as in values), the second is the variable
#where it has to be assigned to.
watch_values = [
['name', name],
['user', user],
['password', password]
]

watch_values[0][1][0] = values[watch_values[0][0]]
print watch_values[0][1]
print name[0]
print user[0]
print password[0]

Alternatively you could manually change valuse in globals() dictionary on assignment of the value.

Generally I don't think there is need for a thing like that at all.