Import Question ..

[Skulled2003 at netscape.net]

Hello,

   I have a question on import. I have a file which contains some assorted lists, and some other definitions. But all of the list names have a common part to it and a specific part in the beginning. For example:

# file containing definitions 'def.py'

firstlistCommonPart = []

secondlistCommonPart = []


Now what i want to do is:

# some other file 'some.py'

import def

def dosomething(something)

   if something == 'firstlist':
      listdef = def.firstlistCommonPart
   elif something == 'secondlist':
      listdef = def.secondlistCommonPart

This is quite frustrating if i have lots of definitions. So is there a way where i could get something like:

def dosomething(something):

    str = something+CommonPart # something is passed as a string
    listdef = def.str

basically i am asking if i can pass the string value to get an attribute from the def file. I tried doing something like in the above case, but it returns and tells me def has no attribute str.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Vinod


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