Hello, abcd wrote:
> I have the following code which is sent over the wire as a string... > > from time import time > class Foo: > def go(self): > print "Time:", time() > > > I get this code and store it as, "data" > > data = receivePythonSource() > > Then I try... > > exec marshal.loads(data) in my_module.__dict__ > > However I get an error saying: > ValueError: invalid literal for __float__: om time import time > class Foo: > def go(self): > > ....almost like when I try to marshal and exec it misses the first two > characters, "fr" ...any ideas? marshal is used to (de)serialize python objects from/to strings. marshal.loads() tries to deserialize an encoded string back into a python object - which does not make sense here. What you probably want is: exec data in my_module.__dict__ HTH -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
