syntax error in eval()

[harold fellermann]

Thank you, Duncan and Steven.
I completely forgot about setattr.
Of course that's the way ... as its name might suggest *g*

> What you are doing wrong is attempting to use eval before exhausting 
> all
> the simpler techniques. Why not just call 'setattr'?
>
>>>> setattr(X, 'attr', 5)
>
> BTW, the syntax error is because eval evaluates an expression and
> an assignment statement is a statement not an expression.

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