Yes, it's called "eval"
http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#eval
for example:
"""
>>> eval( "1 + 2" )
3
"""
There's also "exec":
"""
>>> exec ("print \"hello\"")
hello
"""
These functions are powerful enough that you can provide custom global and
local variables via dictionaries. In other-words: you can provide custom
objects to your users for them to script/expression with.
-brad
On May 21, 2013, at 4:54 AM, Todd Widup <[email protected]> wrote:
> is there a python equivalent to eval?
>
> I am setting up a few things that could allow the user to specify a pre-build
> function but user A could specify a different prebuild function than user B,
> and I need some way of handling this.
>
> only thing I can think of right now is using maya.mel.eval("python string")
> which I really don't like the idea of doing that.
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
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