* Gnarlodious:
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.
I don't understand how you intend to use a variable whose name comes from
dynamic data.
So I agree with Steven that it's the wrong way to handle the problem --
whatever the problem is!
But, if it can help:
>>> import __main__
>>> setattr( __main__, "blah", 123 )
>>> blah
123
>>> _
Cheers,
- Alf
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