Is it a good idea to dynamically create variables?

Question

I recently found out how to dynamically create variables in python through this method:

vars()[\'my_variable\'] = \'Some Value\'

Thus creat

Answer 1

There is no guarantee that vars()['myvariable'] = 'Some value' and my variable = 'Some value' have the same effect. From the documentation:

Without an argument, vars() acts like locals(). Note, the locals dictionary is only useful for reads since updates to the locals dictionary are ignored.

This code is simply wrong.