deref in a string into an operand

[John Doe]

Foolish me; I examined the __builtin__ and found __getattribute__, 
along with '__mul__' '__add__', '__sub__' and '__div__'. 

So using a builtin object like 'x' ...

	x = 5
	attr = '__mul__' 

	print x.__getattribute__( attr )( 5 )
	25

My program will store the operand as '__mul__' instead of '*', along with
a health bit of comment.

Dan. Closed.

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:01:59 +0000, John Doe wrote:

> I've got the action '+' stored as the variable 'plus',
> that is plus='+'
> 
> Now I want to use the variable plus in an equation:
> 5 plus 7, just line 5 + 7
> 
> How do I do that?
> 
> Dan