python create variables from dictionary entries

Question

I would love to do something like this:

rates={'r1':10, 'r2':20}

and then do some cool command (what is it???) to end up with variables in my namespace

>>>r1 
10

>>>r2
20

Is this a dumb idea?

Answer 1

You can just do:

globals().update(rates)

Anyway, it's usually a bad practice.

globals()