David Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:10:27PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
>
>> So I wonder if is this the canonical way to do this kind of thing, or is
>> there a better way?
>
> Almost universally, 'eval' is never the correct answer. You're asking
> the language to compile something at runtime, from source. Unless you
> evaluating expressions that came from the user, this isn't the best
> way to do this. If you are evaluating expressions from the user, you
> shouldn't be using eval for safety reasons.
>
> What is it you are trying to do?
Actually, I was just trying to write a test program to demonstrate
invertability of the unicodedata.name() return via eval'ing the composed
literal like u'\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS}'.
Regards,
..jim
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