Behind the scene, I have something like: robot_dict = { 'robot' = CreateRobot( ..., name = 'robot') } and have mapped move() to correspond to robot_dict['robot'].move() (which does lots of stuff behind the scene.)
I have tested robot_dict[] with more than one robot (each with its own unique name) and am now at the point where I would like to have the ability to interpret something like:
alex = CreateRobot() anna = CreateRobot()
alex.move() anna.move()
etc. Since I want the user to learn Python's syntax, I don't want to require him/her to write alex = CreateRobot(name = 'alex') to then be able to do alex.move()
How do you get the commands from the user? Maybe you can preprocess the user code?
py> class Robot(object): ... def __init__(self, name): ... self.name = name ... def move(self): ... print "robot %r moved" % self.name ... py> user_code = """\ ... alex = Robot() ... anna = Robot() ... alex.move() ... anna.move()""" py> new_user_code = re.sub(r'(\w+)\s+=\s+Robot\(\)', ... r'\1 = Robot(name="\1")', ... user_code) py> print new_user_code alex = Robot(name="alex") anna = Robot(name="anna") alex.move() anna.move() py> exec new_user_code robot 'alex' moved robot 'anna' moved
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