def <dynamic function name> () syntax ?
Andrew Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Wed Apr 4 13:47:35 EDT 2001
"Bruce Edge" <bedge at troikanetworks.com> writes:
> Can the follwoing be accomplished in Python?
>
> I want to create a func named "abc":
Just bind the name to 'abc'.
def dummy_name ():
...
abc = dummy_name
Or: exec '%s = dummy_name' % name
But such dynamic creation of functions usually strikes me as a flawed
design. An informal rule of mine is that 'exec' or 'eval' should only
be needed when you're expecting arbitrary expressions, perhaps in a
config file, but exec'ing a single statement or applying eval() to a
single name is usually a sign of programming in some non-Pythonic
style.
--amk
More information about the Python-list
mailing list