[IronPython] Newbie: convert string to python expression??

[Kristian Jaksch]

Michael,

Thank you for your help! It finally works. Now there is lots of other things
left but this has really helped a lot.



2008/12/16 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>

> Kristian Jaksch wrote:
>
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> What do you mean exec the import * inside the context to poulate it?
>> Something like:
>>
>> *context['Mapack'] = exec "from Mapack import *"   #Doesn't work
>>
>> *Hmmm... think I'm getting tired.
>>
>>  exec doesn't return anything.
>
> Try:
>
> *exec "from Mapack import *" in context*
>
> It looked like from your response to Orestis that you were moving away from
> using an explicit context - which I think will get you into confusion with
> local variables created by your user code.
>
> Michael
>
>> Anyway thanks for help!
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/16 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk <mailto:
>> fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>>
>>
>>
>>    Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>        Kristian Jaksch wrote:
>>
>>            *
>>            def inputBox_KeyDown(s, e):
>>             key = e.Key.value__
>>             result = root.inputBox.Text
>>             if key == 3: #If 'Enter' key is pressed
>>                 try:
>>                     try:
>>                         root.message.Text = eval(result)
>>                     except SyntaxError:
>>                        exec result in context
>>                 except Exception, e:
>>                     print 'Unhandled exception', e
>>                 root.inputBox.Text = "" #Clearing inputBox*
>>
>>            But this creates a fixed size matrix and I still get an
>>            exception if I type for example *m=Matrix(2,2)* in the
>>            'inputBox'. I want to make this as general as possible.
>>            Can't I place everything that is imported from 'Mapack'
>>            into the 'context' dictionary together with whatever the
>>            user types in besides of that?
>>
>>
>>        You can. I'll give you a clue - import * makes it harder. Try
>>        importing Mapack and then it will be easier to put things from
>>        the module into the dictionary.
>>
>>
>>    Hmmm - actually you could exec the import * inside the context to
>>    populate it.
>>
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