Question re: eval()

[Emile van Sebille]

What are you trying to do that using a dict doesn't address?

eg:

def n():
    return 3

print eval ('n + 1', {'n':n()})

g = {}
l = {}

exec ('m = 4',g,l)
exec ('a = 2',g,l)
print eval ('a + m',g,l)


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Emile van Sebille
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"Clarence Gardner" <clarence at netlojix.com> wrote in message
news:978109654.339714327 at news.silcom.com...
>
> I want to eval() an expression, but have some of the
variables in it be
> lazily evaluated.  E.g.,
>
> class D:
>     def __getitem__(self, name):
>         if name == 'n':
>             return 3
>
> d = D()
> x = eval('n + 1', d)
>
>
> but the eval function accepts only a dictionary as the
second parameter.
> Is there any amazing way to do this?
>
> TIA,
> Clarence Gardner
> clarence at netlojix.com