Steven W. Orr wrote: > I have two seperate modules doing factory stuff which each have the > similar function2: > > In the ds101 module, def DS101CLASS(mname,data): > cname = mname+'DS101' > msg_class = globals()[cname] > msg = msg_class(data) > return msg > > and in the fdu module, > > def FDUCLASS(mname,data): > cname = mname+'FDU' > msg_class = globals()[cname] > msg = msg_class(data) > return msg > > I was thinking I'd be clever and create a common function: > def procCLASS(mname, objname, data): > cname = mname+objname > msg_class = globals()[cname] > msg = msg_class(data) > return msg > > but the call to globals fouls it all up. Is there a way to write it so > that the call to globals can be parameterized to be in the context of a > specific module? > > Also, I need to go the other way, a la, > globals()[name] = nclass > > Is this doable? > > TIA >
Why do you need all of the msg_class(es) global? Why not put them into a module and import the module where you need them? This would be the conventional way to avoid such problems. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
