How to pop characters from the list and make them variable name in Python?

Question

How do I pop character from a certain list and make it my variable name? For example:

list1=['a','b','h','j']

In this case, how do I remove 'a','b','h','j' from the list and make it a variable?

a=input("Enter a name")
b=input("Enter a name")
h=input("Enter a name")
j=input("Enter a name")

I have dynamically created the list in my project where the contents of the list are appended from some other action.

`variable = list1.pop()` with an optional index as argument. — Klaus D., Feb 02 '19 at 05:27
*"...make it a variable?"* You shouldn't create variables like that. If you are trying to read from user and put all inputs to list, this is not the way. — Austin, Feb 02 '19 at 05:34
You don't. Use a list to store inputs and adress them by index or you use a dictionary for key:value pairs if it makes sense - I can see no place where your example code would warrant using a dictionary. — Patrick Artner, Feb 02 '19 at 05:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '19 at 05:35

Depending on if you want these variables as local or global. For global you can use:

while list1:
    variable = list1.pop()
    globals()[variable]=input(“Enter a name”)

For local, just replace globals() with locals()

Or you can go with a dictionary. Pop the items from list to be keys and assign value to those keys.

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