Given a list of variable names in Python, how do I a create a dictionary with the variable names as keys (to the variables' values)?

Question

I have a list of variable names, like this:

[\'foo\', \'bar\', \'baz\']

(I originally asked how I convert a list of variables. See Greg He

Answer 1

Not efficient, but without invoking eval:

dict((k,v) for (k,v) in globals().iteritems() if k in list_of_variable_names)

or

dict((k,v) for (k,v) in vars().iteritems() if k in list_of_variable_names)

depending on what you want.