"Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I am trying to replace the eval() in the following code: > > def myfunc(type, table): > module = __import__(type) > type = 'module' + '.' + type > obj = eval(type) > return obj(row[table.c.name], row[table.c.handle]) > > I am out of ideas. Any hints?
Perhaps what you need is a dict 'types' mapping strings to types/classes. Then the last two lines might become return types[type](row[table.c.name], row[table.c.handle]) The trick of mapping names to callables for runtime choice of what to call has several uses. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
