Exec Statement Question

[Victor Subervi]

Hi;
I have the following line of code:

exec('%s()' % table)

where 'table' is a variable in a for loop that calls variables from another
script. I've made it so that it only calls one variable. I know for a fact
that it's calling that variable in the script because it found errors in
that script. I've tried to have it return the following:

print 'hi'
return 'hi'

It doesn't return anything. No errors are thrown because the code evaluates.
I don't know how to capture the output. I would like to do something like:

print exec(...)

or

var = exec(...)

but of course those options don't work. Suggestions?
TIA,
Victor
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