Defining new functions at runtime

[Mark McEahern]

>     I am writing a GUI interface to a database using tkinter. 
> Now, I want to
> provide a facility where a user can define python functions using the GUI
> and then run them in the same runtime environment. so, a normal function
> needs to be treated like a method object.
>    Is this possible? Can I treat functions as first class objects? Can
> somebody please guide me as to how I could accomplish this?

Checkout the new module:

	import new

I'm curious how you will restrict what they can do?

// mark