Problem with variable

[O_Pas_Sage]

Hello,
My program :

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variable = chocolate number = 'variable'   print(number... ?)

And I want the answer of the program to be: "chocolate"

How can I do this ?

Thanks !

[buran]

you should use the quotes the other way round

1 2	variable = 'chocolate' print(variable)

if you need to pass value from one variable to another

1	new_variable = variable

[j.crater]

Right now variable "thinks" chocolate is another variable. But you didn't define it anywhere, so it will get confused and you get an error.
If you want to store the string/text "chocolate" to variable you need to put it in quotes (double or single), like you did with variable. Text in quotes is a string, text without quotes is a variable name.

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variable = "chocolate" number = variable    print(number)

[O_Pas_Sage]

My entire code is :

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variable = 'chocolate' variable2 = 'chocolate2' #variable3 = '.....

And if you want to read a variable :

1	enter = int(input())  #Answer variable2

Answer : chocolate2

How can I do this ?

Thanks

[Gribouillis]

Try answer = globals()[input()]

[buran]

Try answer = globals()[input()]

I don't think it's good idea to show this to a newbie

@O_Pas_Sage: Please, read Why you don't want to dynamically create variables

use some sort of container, e.g.

dict

1 2	myvars = {'variable':'chocolate', 'variable2':'chocolate2'} print(myvars['variable2'])

1 2	myvars = {'1':'chocolate', '2':'chocolate2'} print(myvars['2'])

or list, tuple

1 2	myvars = ['chocolate', 'chocolate2'] print(myvars[0])

[snippsat]

Now that @Grib has shown globals()(Python's internal dictionary),okay to show but can also mention better ways.
A ordinarily visible dictionary.

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λ ptpython >>> choco_store = dict(variable='chocolate', variable2='chocolate2') >>> choco_store {'variable': 'chocolate', 'variable2': 'chocolate2'}   >>> enter = choco_store.get(input('What chocolate: '), 'No chocolate for you') What chocolate: variable2 >>> enter 'chocolate2'   >>> enter = choco_store.get(input('What chocolate: '), 'No chocolate for you') What chocolate: Mars >>> enter 'No chocolate for you'

Similar to @buran post,did something else for a while so did not see the post.

[buran]

Similar to @buran post,did something else for a while so did not see the post.

Yeah, it happens often to me too :-)