Thank you for trying to help, Martin. So:
On 04/10/2016 09:08 PM, Martin A. Brown wrote:
#1: I would not choose eval() except when there is no other
solution. If you don't need eval(), it may save you some
headache in the future, as well, to find an alternate way.
So, can we help you choose something other than eval()?
What are you trying to do with that usage?
so, I do not quite control the format of the file I am trying to parse.
it has the format:
"str1","str2",....,"strN" => more stuff
:
in some cases there is just one "str" which is what created me problem.
The first "str1" has special meaning and, at times, it can be alone.
The way I handle this is:
parts = line.strip().split(" => ")
tokens = eval(parts[0])
if type(tokens) == str: #Handle case that there's only one token
columns.add(tokens)
rowTokenString = "__Empty__"
rows.add(rowTokenString)
value = parts[1][:2]
addCell(table, rowTokenString, tokens, value)
else:
columns.add(tokens[0])
rowTokenString = '"'+'","'.join(tokens[1:]) + '"'
rows.add(rowTokenString)
value = parts[1][:2]
addCell(table, rowTokenString, tokens[0],value)
which admittedly is not very elegant. If you have suggestions on how to avoid
the use
of eval() and still achieve the same, I would be delighted to hear them
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