How do I do this? (eval() on the left hand side)

[Carl Banks]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> In general I would say that mucking with globals() like this is
> probably best restricted to constants like in this case, if at all.

Modifying globals() not even necessary for this.  When I want to
dynamically update the global namespace, I do it this way:

mod = __import__(__name__)
setattr(mod,symbol,value)

Works perfectly unless you're worried about someone modifying the built
in __import__. 


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CARL BANKS