Steven Bethard wrote: > If you have access to the user module's text, something like this might > be a nicer solution: > > py> class Robot(object): > ... def __init__(self): > ... self.name = None > ... def move(self): > ... print "robot %r moved" % self.name > ... > py> class RobotDict(dict): > ... def __setitem__(self, name, value): > ... if isinstance(value, Robot): > ... value.name = name > ... super(RobotDict, self).__setitem__(name, value) > ... > py> user_code = """\ > ... alex = Robot() > ... anna = Robot() > ... alex.move() > ... anna.move()""" > py> robot_dict = RobotDict() > py> robot_dict['Robot'] = Robot > py> exec user_code in robot_dict > robot 'alex' moved > robot 'anna' moved > > Note that I provide a specialized dict in which to exec the user code -- > this allows me to override __setitem__ to add the appropriate attribute > to the Robot as necessary. >
I have tried this exact example (using Python 2.3 if it makes any difference) and what I got was: robot None moved robot None moved I checked what I wrote, used cut & paste on your code, removing the leading "junk", tried it again ... to no avail. :-( André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
