Can Python do this?

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Gerhard Häring wrote:

> > Can you tell me little bit more why is this a bad idea to use exec/eval?
>
> Because they're
> - unnecessary
> - ugly
> - unsafe

And:
- slow

For example:

s = 'bar'
getattr(foo, s)

is way faster than

eval('foo.%s' % s)

-Dave