Creating a list based on value stored in variable in python

Question

I have a variable with a string value in it. I want to create a list with the value as its name/identifier, then append values to the list. So assuming variable s = \"

Answer 1

You can use globals():

>>> strs = "temp1"
>>> globals()[strs] = []
>>> temp1
[]

But using a dict for such purpose would be more appropriate:

>>> dic = {strs:[]}
>>> dic["temp1"]
[]