> 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
Thanks, that works great! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list