On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: <snip> > (as an aside, is there a way to get a local/global variable from a string > like one can fetch a variable from a class/object with getattr()? Something > like getattr(magic_namespace_here, "hello") used in the above context? I > know it can be done with eval(), but that's generally considered unsafe > unless you vet your input thoroughly)
locals()["hello"] and globals()["hello"], respectively Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
