assign output of print to a variable in python

Question

i want to know how to assign the output of print to a variable.

so if

mystring = \"a=\\\'12\\\'\"

then

print mys         


        

Answer 1

for more of an explanation: i have a list of strings i got from a a comment line of a data file. it looks like this:

"a='0.015in' lPrime='0.292' offX='45um' offY='75um' sPrime='0.393' twistLength='0'",
 "a='0.015in' lPrime='0.292' offX='60um' offY='75um' sPrime='0.393' twistLength='0'",
 "a='0.015in' lPrime='0.292' offX='75um' offY='75um' sPrime='0.393' twistLength='0'",
 '']

i want to put the values into some structure so i can plot the various things versus any variabls so the list is a legend basically, and i want to plot functions of the traces versus variables given in teh legend.

so if for each entry i have a trace, then i may want to plot max(trace) vs offX for a series of a values.