That's neat. When just the function call is the string, eval() seems
appropriate. (For example, if reading what function to call from a file.)
def some_func(val):
return val
s = eval('some_func("that\'s also pretty cool")')
s
"that's also pretty cool"
At any rate, thanks for the responses,
Cecilia
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,
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