[Image-SIG] assigning commands to a variable

[Chris Barker]

Chris Cogdon wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2004, at 08:16, francesco wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> is it possible to assign a string to a variable and then make python 
>> understand that it is not just text but a command?

> try using getattr.
> 
> <myimage>.filter( getattr ( ImageFilter, a ) )

getattr is probably the best option here, but another one is eval:

a = eval("ImageFilter.BLUR")
<myimage>.filter(a)

(not tested, but something like that would work)

-Chris





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