Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >>> exec(eval("'a%s=%s' % (count, value)")) >> >>why using the eval? >> >>exec ('a%s=%s' % (count, value)) >> >>should be fine > > And this demonstrates why exec as a statement was a mistake ;) > > It actually is > > exec 'a%s=%s' % (count, value)
Noted. In the meantime another question I cannot find an answer to: any idea why does eval() consider '=' as a syntax error? >>> eval ('a=1') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "<string>", line 1 a=1 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Thanks -- rafi "Imagination is more important than knowledge." (Albert Einstein) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list