evaluate a variable

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 dimitry_snezhkov at yahoo.com wrote:

> I just started learning Python. Of, course , reading  output of
> __doc__
> is very pleasant. I decided to output documentation for every def in
> a module. How do I evaluate a variable that is dynamicaly generated.
> Sort of hello.$bye.see_ya in Perl :
>
> Here's my code :
>
>     import sys
>
>     for each in range(len(dir(sys))):
>         method='sys' + '.' + dir(sys)[each] + '.' + '__doc__'
>         ## i cannot do
>         print method.__doc__
>         ## this doesn't evaluate method properly.
>         ## Does eval work in this situation?
>
> Also, please, let me know if what I am trying to do is awkward way of
> doing it. How does Python approach such evaluation.

import sys

for each in dir(sys):
  try:
    print '%s: %s' % (each, getattr(sys, each).__doc__)
    print
  except AttributeError:
    print

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>