Addressing the question for variable variables in python (i.e. variables with variable names), which has been posed on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1373164/how-do-i-do-variable-variables-in-python
The consensus is to use a dictionary for this. This is a good idead, however, there are many aspects arising from this:
* you'll yourself be responsible for this dictionary, including garbage collection (of in-dict variables) etc.
* there's no locality for variable...