Question

I have two variables as follows:

a = "1"
b = "21" 

and a list:

['a', 'b', '3', '4', '5', '64']

How would I go about replacing variable names with their values in the list, like:

['1', '21', '3', '4', '5', '64']

Answer 1

I’m guessing you don’t mean the fact you just need to give the name of the variable, not as a string?

You could do a “monstrosity” such as:

a = '1'
b = '21'

els = ['a', 'b', '3', '4', '5', '64']
print [vars().get(el, el) for el in els]
# ['1', '21', '3', '4', '5', '64']

But if you’re in a situation that you’re doing that, or thinking of doing that — it’s time to think again