On 6/8/2018 6:07 PM, Michael Selik wrote:
You can use ``eval`` to run an expression, swapping in a different
globals and/or locals namespace. Will this serve your purpose?
In [1]: import types
In [2]: ns = types.SimpleNamespace(a=1)
In [3]: eval('a', ns.__dict__)
Out[3]: 1
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#eval
Or exec to run statements in namespaces. This is how IDLE, and I am
sure, at least some other IDEs, execute user code in a simulated
__main__ namespace.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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