Hey there My question is pretty simple - I want to use something like getattr to grab a symbol from the local scope from a string.
Basically my application has a scheduler which stores names of functions defined in the "schedule" module in a database, to be run on certain days. Every night I call schedule.RunSchedule, which grabs all the rows on the database that have to be run now, and I want to call the function defined the same module according to that string. I know I can use eval, but I've always been told that if you're using eval, you're doing it wrong. Also not using eval limits the scope damage that can be caused by any errors in my application which could cause the database to be poisoned. Cheers for any help :-) -Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
