def <dynamic function name> () syntax ?
Ype Kingma
ykingma at accessforall.nl
Wed Apr 4 14:55:23 EDT 2001
Bruce Edge wrote:
>
> Can the follwoing be accomplished in Python?
>
> I want to create a func named "abc":
>
> >>> name="abc"
>
> >>> eval ("name")
> 'abc'
>
> >>> def eval ("name") ():
> File "<stdin>", line 1
> def eval ("name") ():
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
def yourfunction():
return yourvalue
eval(name + '= yourfunction')
The interpreter uses dictionaries, so you might
just as well do that yourself:
yourfunctiondict['name'] = yourfunction
yourfunctiondict['name'](yourarg)
Good luck,
Ype
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