[Tutor] putting together commands

[Magnus Lycka]

At 17:00 2002-10-16 +0000, Terje Johan Abrahamsen wrote:
>But, as I expected, q is a string. I cannot run a string. How do I come=20
>around this problem? Any suggestions?

Sean is right here. You shouldn't try to run a string
*in this case*. There are times when you want that though,
and it's easy:

 >>> a =3D "print 'Hello '*5"
 >>> exec(a)
Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello

You can also evaluate expressions:

 >>> e =3D "4*5**3"
 >>> r =3D eval(e)
 >>> print r
500


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