Ali Razavi wrote: > Ali Razavi wrote: > >>Is there any reflective facility in python >>that I can use to define a variable with a >>name stored in another variable ?
> Got it! use higher order functions like Lisp! No, you use higher order functions like Python. :) > code = x + '= 0' > exec(code) You should generally stay away from exec for lots of reasons. I won't elaborate but a search of this group would be informative. If you want to affect the globals (which you probably don't) you can do this: >>> x = 'my_var' >>> globals()[x] = 7 >>> my_var 7 If you want to set an attribute on a particular object (which is more likely), you can do this: >>> class C: ... pass ... >>> c = C() >>> setattr(c, x, 8) >>> c.my_var 8 > code = 'print ' + x > exec(code) Getting the value would be like this, respectively: >>> print globals()[x] 7 >>> getattr(c, x) 8 HTH -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
