Question

I’m looking for a way to create a dictionary without writing the key explicitly.
I want to create a function that gets the number of variables and creates a dictionary where the variable names are the keys and their values are the variable values.

Instead of writing the following function:

def foo():
    first_name = "daniel"
    second_name = "daniel"
    id = 1
    return {'first_name':first_name, 'second_name':second_name}

I want to get the same result with function :

create_dict_from_variables(first_name, second_name)

Is there any way to do so?

Answer 1

You cannot do this.

Your function could be defined as:

def create_dict_from_variables(first_name, second_name):
    return something_from(first_name, second_name)

and you can call this function:

create_dict_from_variables('abcd', 'efgh')

These two arguments 'abcd' and 'efgh' are not named variables.