Create object name from string value?

[Gnarlodious]

On Jan 20, 10:35 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> That's the wrong way to handle the problem. Named objects are only useful
> if you know the name of the object when writing the code. Otherwise, how
> do you know what name to use in the code?

Thank you for the help. I am gathering the names of all *.plist files
in a folder, creating objects named the filename, and accessing the
data like this:

Data.Server.Config.BaseURL
> http://Spectrumology.com/

Adding a .plist file would automatically create a plist dictionary
object inside the Data module.

> The right way to solve this problem is with a dictionary:
>
> for name in ["object1", "object2", "object3"]:
>     d = {name: classname()}
>     print d[name]

This works! However I end up saying:

d['Server'].Config.BaseURL

to get the data, when I should be saying:

Server.Config.BaseURL

> but for the record, the way to use exec is like this:
>
> exec("object1 = classname()")

I failed to make that work. So back to the original question. How to
make an instance named according to a string inside a variable? I
guess it should be in the top-level namespace, not inside a list or
dictionary.

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