On Sep 29, 11:25 pm, Nathan Seese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a program to sort files with arbitrary python code. The > method I'm using for that is to pass sort an anonymous function taken > from the arguments. I'm wondering how to change a raw string into an > anonyous function.
Is this enough for you? >>> L = [1, -5, 7, -9] >>> sorted(L, key=abs) [1, -5, 7, -9] >>> func = "abs" >>> sorted(L, key=eval(func)) [1, -5, 7, -9] >>> func = "abs(x)" >>> sorted(L, key=lambda x: eval(func)) [1, -5, 7, -9] Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
