Hi! I've got import scripts for a bunch of csv files into an sqlite database. I have one csv file per language. I don't write directly to the sqlite db; this is a django app and I'm creating items in my django models.
My script (scripts, unfortunately) work just fine, but it feels beyond stupid to have one script per language--importgerman, importfrench etc. The problem is that I don't know how to abstract which language I'm currently writing to. Here's the central loop: http://pastebin.com/NBT6feNB This is for the Polish version of the script, of course, the one that gets fed pl.csv. For those unfamiliar with django, I need to first retrieve the message instance for issue name / long text / short text / category name. Hence the ugly tempmes stuff. So ideally I would tell the script which language I'm currently importing and based on that it would write to the appropriate text fields. But I don't know how to abstract this: tempmes.polish = row[1] Well, I do. Like this: eval("tempmes." + language + " = row[1]") But... eval is evil, no? There's got to be a better way? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
