On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:14:13PM -0500, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:

Not to open a can of worms but why not use eval in this example? It is faster. It is 5x more compact. It allows me to take advantage of the Python parser instead of reinventing the wheel. It is less error prone and easier to understand. It is a python keyword.

I wouldn't worry too much about the implementation details of a clearly insane idea... And eval generally has high "code-smell" -- it can lead to code injection exploits. m -- Matt Billenstein matt@vazor.com http://www.vazor.com/