On Jan 20, 10:35 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > That's the wrong way to handle the problem. Named objects are only useful > if you know the name of the object when writing the code. Otherwise, how > do you know what name to use in the code?
Thank you for the help. I am gathering the names of all *.plist files in a folder, creating objects named the filename, and accessing the data like this: Data.Server.Config.BaseURL > http://Spectrumology.com/ Adding a .plist file would automatically create a plist dictionary object inside the Data module. > The right way to solve this problem is with a dictionary: > > for name in ["object1", "object2", "object3"]: > d = {name: classname()} > print d[name] This works! However I end up saying: d['Server'].Config.BaseURL to get the data, when I should be saying: Server.Config.BaseURL > but for the record, the way to use exec is like this: > > exec("object1 = classname()") I failed to make that work. So back to the original question. How to make an instance named according to a string inside a variable? I guess it should be in the top-level namespace, not inside a list or dictionary. -- Gnarlie http://Gnarlodious.com/Gnarlodious -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
