Assign multiple variables at once with dynamic variable names

Question

I'm aware I can assign multiple variables to multiple values at once with:

(foo, bar, baz) = 1, 2, 3

And have foo = 1, bar = 2, and so on.

But how could I make the names of the variables more dynamic? Ie,

somefunction(data,tupleofnames):
    (return that each name mapped to a single datum)

somefunction((1,2,3),(foo,bar,baz))     

And have the same?

Answer 1

There are ways to do it, but they're not nice ways, and it's considered bad practice in Python. New variables shouldn't be created by magic. If you want to have a collection of things, use a list, dictionary or set, as appropriate.

For example, you could return a dictionary: {"foo":1, "bar":2, "baz":3}