On Sat, Dec 04, 2004, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> I'm having trouble understanding the difference between eval and
>exec.
>
>eval evaluates an *expression* - that is something that returns a
>value.
>
...
>Both are extremely dangerous functions from a security
>and maintenance/reliability pouint of view and should be
>used very rarely.
True enough, but useful upon occassion. In particular I've had a
question on the back burner for a while. Suppose I have a
dictionary of database instances, dbtables, keyed on table name,
and I want a general way of creating variables with the name of
the table so I'm not accessing the dictionary. Would something
like this work:
# dbtables is already built
for table in dbtables.keys():
exec("%s = dbtables['%s']" % (table, table))
Bill
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