using exec() to instantiate a new object.

[Patrick Mullen]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, RyanN <Ryan.Neve at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> to do this I tried:
>
>    def addCountry(self,country_name):
>        # create an instance of country
>        exec(country_name + "= country('" + country_name + "')")
>        # Add this new instance of a country to a list
>        exec("self.countries.append(" + country_name + ")")
>

Don't use exec.  It's quite dangerous, and in your case is making
things much more complex than necessary.  A much simpler way to do
what you want:

def addCountry(self,country_name):
   self.countries.append(country(country_name))

There is no need to bind the result of "country(country_name)" to a name at all.