On 26/03/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Singleton wrote: > > How does one go about creating functions, classes, or callable objects > > when you don't know their name in advance? (For example you want to > > read their names in from a text file or database). > > > > I want to use this in a few different places. For example Faces, the > > Python Project Management Planner Tool Thingy, uses nested functions > > to put tasks within a project: > > > > def MyProject(): > > start = "2006-03-06" > > resource = Me > > > > def Task1(): > > start = "2006-03-13" > > > > def Task2(): > > effort = "1w" > > > > I'd like to load these from a database (using SQLObject), but I'm not > > sure how I can define the name of the function from a filed in a > > database (or read in from a text file). > > Hi Ed, > > I was just wondering how this came out - did you find a way to generate > these functions dynamically? Or change Faces? Or give up?
I just temporarily delayed the problem. I'm going to have a look at trying to change the Faces code to use dictionaries as per your suggestion, but it would a big task for me (my biggest so far probably). (I have a new job that lets me do everything in Python, but sometimes they direct my efforts towards a particular task, which delays my working on interesting things). Ed _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
