How do I do something like this:
I know that
a = 3 y = "a" print eval(y)
would give me a print out of 3 - but how do I do something to the effect of:
eval(y) = 4 # hopefully the value of a gets changed to 4
Generally, if you find yourself doing this, you may want to rethink your program organization. That being said, if you are in the global scope, one option looks something like:
>>> a = 3 >>> y = 'a' >>> globals()[y] = 4 >>> a 4
If you can give us some more context on why you want to do this, we can probably suggest a better approach. There aren't too many places where even advanced Python programmers need to use eval...
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
