A colleague and I have built a Validator object for use with ConfigObj and other general schema situations. A config file is used to store a schema that specifies how to test a value that it is valid.
keyword=function(param1, param2) e.g. you could specify : size = range(30, 50) This means that the keyword 'size' must be an integer between 30 and 50. There is a matching function stored in a dictionary that is called and the relevant arguments passed to it. The function name and parameters are parsed from the config file that defines the schema. args, fname = parsefunction('range(30,50)') test = funcdict[fname](*args) What I can't easily see is any way of passing named keyword arguments to the function. Suppose we wanted to pass keyword=param to a function - is there any way of doing this ... obviously passing in 'keyword=param' as text has entirely the wrong result...... Anyone got any clues ? I suspect compiling the function into a code object will help.... but this is a slightly black art for me. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list