[Tutor] Converting from unicode to nonstring

[Adam Bark]

On 14/10/10 20:33, David Hutto wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM, David Hutto<smokefloat at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Adam Bark<adam.jtm30 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On 14/10/10 20:21, David Hutto wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Adam Bark<adam.jtm30 at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Actually, I needed it to be converted to something without a string
>>>>>> attached to it. See a post above, and it was fixed by eval(),
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks though. And I'm sure at some point this morning in a moment of
>>>>>> frustration rather than logic, I tried your approach.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> What do you mean by "without a string attached to it"?
>>>>> Also using eval could be dangerous unless you're sure the stuff coming
>>>>> out
>>>>> of your dbase is safe.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Read the above posts and it should be explanation enough.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I did read them and it's really not clear.
>>>
>>>        
>> I needed to have:
>> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(self.plot)
>>
>> from the data I brought in I got the following when the variable
>> above(self.plot) was inserted:
>>
>> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(u'plot')
>>
>> So by applying eval:
>>
>> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(eval(self.plot))
>>
>> It then inserted the following  when the variable self.plot was used:
>>
>> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(eval(plot)
>>
>> no u'stringhere' in the second version with eval around the variable.
>>
>>
>> I hope that makes it clearer. Otherwise I might have to let you borrow
>> my Windex to clean the screen.
>>
>>      
> In other words I needed (1,2,3,4) not u'(1,2,3,4)' to be inserted for
> variable self.plot
>    
In which case the code Sanders sent you is a much more sensible way of 
recovering your data. Evalling the string u'plot' still doesn't make 
much sense to me though. I think I may have been overestimating the 
quality of your code.