On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Laszlo Nagy <gand...@shopzeus.com> wrote: > the exec statement can be used to execute a def statement. However, I see no > way to change the globals, so I cannot use the exec statement.
You can't use: exec "blah blah" in globals() ? I've not used exec, nor its Python 3 equivalent exec(), much, so I don't know enough about it to know why this wouldn't work. But it's meant to be able to work with any dictionary for globals and/or locals. A quick test in Python 2.4.5: >>> exec "def foo():\n\tbar+=1\n\treturn 1\n" >>> bar=2 >>> foo() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "<string>", line 2, in foo UnboundLocalError: local variable 'bar' referenced before assignment Is that the issue you're up against? I'm thinking here that the solution might be the function's __globals__ attribute, but that only exists in Python 3 (I think). Can you upgrade/migrate to version 3? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
