John, Thanks for writing, and I'm sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. Python is fun for me -- dinner guests and my boss got in the way.
>> The code ... is the result of noodling around with switches as a learning >> tool. I've played with python for a few years, but I'm self-taught, so . . . >> My question is, why are modules imported at the top of the program not >> visible to the functions Switch builds? There is >> no problem when the import is in the function, but I thought initially that >> imports at the top would be in its globals. >John wrote: >The global namespace of the to-be-exec'ed code is the dictionary that >you supply. That dictionary doesn't contain "math". Thank you for the guidance about namespaces and exec. >It's a long time since exec has been documented as a *function*. Why? >Because it isn't: . . . and the code snip. >What book/tutorial did you get that from? Hey, I'm not going to pass that off on anyone. As usual, self-education means missing a lot. I'm exploring your suggestions and working on my code. Thanks again. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
