turning a string into an object name

[Marco Herrn]

A. Jones schrieb im Artikel <3cabf705.91920985 at mammoth.usenet-access.com>:
> 
> I'll probably get blasted for this by Python gurus... but, I've used
> it with some success.  You can do
> 
> exec(myObjc + " = " + value)
> 
> or, if it's a class instance you want to create
> 
> exec(myObjc + " = " + bar + "()").

Thank you. That is possibly the best solution for me.  The other answers
I got (thank you all for that) seem to assume that I know possible names
of class instances. But that is not what I want. (Maybe I am just
misunderstanding the code ;-)

Bye
Marco


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