eval() and local variables

[Peter Luciak]

Hi,
I need to do something like this:

def my():
        a,b=1,2
        func = "lambda x: a*x+b"
        map(eval(func),[1,2,3])

my()

NameError: global name 'a' is not defined

Why do I have to make a,b global for this to work?

Thanks,
P.
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