operators as variables

[Mark Tolonen]

"macc_200" <macc_200 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:103920.71204.qm at web26006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com...
> Hi,
> just starting programming and have an elementary question
> after playing around with lists but cannot find >the answer
> with googling.
> I have a list of variables and I would like some of those
>  variables to be integers and some to be operators so the
>  list would look something like [5 * 4 - 4 + 6] and then be
>  able to evaluate the result (i.e. get 10).  How do you make
>  the interpreter see the operator as that instead of a string
>  and just echo the list back to me.
> thanks,
> Andy
> (and suggestions for a decent Python book would be appreciated)

See the operator module, and then check out pyparsing.

-Mark