Ed Singleton wrote: > How does one go about creating functions, classes, or callable objects > when you don't know their name in advance? (For example you want to > read their names in from a text file or database). > > I want to use this in a few different places. For example Faces, the > Python Project Management Planner Tool Thingy, uses nested functions > to put tasks within a project: > > def MyProject(): > start = "2006-03-06" > resource = Me > > def Task1(): > start = "2006-03-13" > > def Task2(): > effort = "1w" > > I'd like to load these from a database (using SQLObject), but I'm not > sure how I can define the name of the function from a filed in a > database (or read in from a text file).
Hi Ed, I was just wondering how this came out - did you find a way to generate these functions dynamically? Or change Faces? Or give up? Thanks, Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor