On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, RyanN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to do this I tried: > > def addCountry(self,country_name): > # create an instance of country > exec(country_name + "= country('" + country_name + "')") > # Add this new instance of a country to a list > exec("self.countries.append(" + country_name + ")") >
Don't use exec. It's quite dangerous, and in your case is making things much more complex than necessary. A much simpler way to do what you want: def addCountry(self,country_name): self.countries.append(country(country_name)) There is no need to bind the result of "country(country_name)" to a name at all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list