define a new func on the fly?

[Greg Ewing]

Bruce Edge wrote:
> 
> Now, how can I get it to create this function in the global namespace?

  exec "def xxx():  print \"xxxxxxxx\"" in globals()

(By the way, you don't need the parentheses around the string
to be exec'ed, because exec is a statement, not a function.)

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