Jive Dadson wrote:
I've got some code that compiles some text and then executes it. When the string is "print 'Hello'", it prints "Hello". I get no exception when I compile and execute "foo = 555". If I then compile and exec "print foo", I get a name error. The variable foo is undefined. My assumption is that the "exec" command created a new namespace, put "foo" in that namespace, and then threw the namespace away. Or something.
I know it must be possible to do this, because it's exactly what programs like IDLE do.
exec statement in name_space will do the trick.
>>> d = {}
>>> exec 'foo=555' in d
>>> d['foo']
555
>>> exec "print foo" in d
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