Re: [Tutor] exec "self.abc=22" ?

[Wayne Watson]

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My limited repertoire. Actually, there wasn't much of a traceback. It came up in a small OK dialog. I copied what I could.  I see my image I used above did make it to the list, so here's the skinny. I see Marc covered it with setattr. How does one do it with a dictionary? What else lurks out there that might be useful along these lines? Alan Gauld wrote: "Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net> wrote Python doesn't like the code in the Subject (unqualified exec not allowed in function). but easily likes self.abc="22". We'd need to see the code and traceback to guess why... However, I'd like to assemble the assignment as a string, as shown in Subject, and execute it. Is there a way to do this? exec is the usual way but it's also usually a bad idea. Any reason why you want to do that rather than any of the safer alternatives? (dict, setattr etc) -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Shhhh, quiet. I'm thinking about filling this space. Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

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