How do I do this? (eval() on the left hand side)

[Nick Coghlan]

Carl Banks wrote:
> Modifying globals() not even necessary for this.  When I want to
> dynamically update the global namespace, I do it this way:
> 
> mod = __import__(__name__)
> setattr(mod,symbol,value)
> 
> Works perfectly unless you're worried about someone modifying the built
> in __import__. 

Well, aside from the detail that modifying a module's contents via a reference 
to that module is far more evil than playing with globals() ;)

Even if that module is the one you're running in. . .

Cheers,
Nick.

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