Hey Crutcher, thanks for the code, that would work. I'm now debating using that, or using function arguments to get the variables into the namespace. This would require knowing the variables in the dict ahead of time, but I suppose I can do that because it's part of the same system that creates the dict. I'm just not very fond of having code relating to one thing in more than one place, because it puts the onus on the programmer to remember to change it in both places. Here I might forgive it because it would make the generated code more readable.
It seems I created a fair amount of confusion over what I'm trying to do. I use special psp like templates in my website. The template engine was previously execing the generated template code. It uses special environment variables that give it access to the functionality of the web engine. These are what are in that scope dictionary of mine, and why I exec the code in that scope. However, I want to integrate a debugger with the web engine now, and debugging execed generated code is a nightmare. So I save the generated code as a function in a module that is generated by the template engine. Unless I'm missing something about what you're saying, this should now be faster as well, because afaik execed code has to be compiled on the spot, wheras a module when you load it, is compiled (or loaded from a .pyc file) at import time. So one import and repeated function calls would be cheaper than repeated exec. Thanks, -Sandra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
