On Jun 23, 6:44 am, eliben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies in this post. Just to conclude, I want to
> post a piece of code I wrote to encapsulate function creation in this
> way:
>
> def create_function(code):
> """ Create and return the function defined in code.
> """
> m = re.match('\s*def\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\s*\(', code)
> if m:
> func_name = m.group(1)
> else:
> return None
>
> d = {}
> exec code.strip() in globals(), d
> return d[func_name]
>
Actually this won't work, because globals() returns the scope in which
create_function is defined, not called. So if I want to place
create_function in some utils file, the code it generates won't be
able to use auxiliary functions from the file that uses
create_function.
Eli
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