declaring a global dynamic variable in python

Question

I\'m a python/programming newbie and maybe my question has no sense at all.

My problem is that I can\'t get a variable to be global if it is dynamic, I mean I can do

Answer 1

Instead of a dynamic global variable, use a dict:

movies = {}

a = 'BrokenCristals'

movies[a] = movieClass.shot()
movies[a].set_name(a)
# etc

Answer 2

For completeness, here's the answer to your original question. But it's almost certainly not what you meant to do -- there are very few cases where modifying the scope's dict is the right thing to do.

globals()[a] = 'whatever'

Answer 3

The global keyword specifies that a variable you're using in one scope actually belongs to the outer scope. Since you do not have nested scopes in your example, global doesn't know what you're trying to do. See Using global variables in a function other than the one that created them