"Cecilia Alm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Thanks, Adam. I guess the exec would be exec("some_func").
> The result seems pretty similar to eval(), allthough eval() seems
> more
> straight-forward if the aim is to assign the returned value ("Done")
> to a
> variable.
>>>> s = eval('some_func("wasn\'t that cool")')
> Hello World wasn't that cool
>>>> s
> 'Done'
You should be able to just do:
>>> s = some_func("wasn't that cool")
The whole point of the exec is that the function now exists in
your local namespace. You can execute it as any other function.
>> func_str = \
>> '''
>> def some_func(value):
>> # youwould check value instance here and do something to it
>> print "Hello World", value
>> return "Done"
>> '''
>> exec(func_str)
This creates the function
>> f = locals()["some_func"]
>> print f("wasn't that cool!")
There should be no need for this trickery.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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