[Tutor] Converting from unicode to nonstring

[David Hutto]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Adam Bark <adam.jtm30 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14/10/10 20:21, David Hutto wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Adam Bark<adam.jtm30 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Actually, I needed it to be converted to something without a string
>>>>> attached to it. See a post above, and it was fixed by eval(),
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks though. And I'm sure at some point this morning in a moment of
>>>>> frustration rather than logic, I tried your approach.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "without a string attached to it"?
>>>> Also using eval could be dangerous unless you're sure the stuff coming
>>>> out
>>>> of your dbase is safe.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Read the above posts and it should be explanation enough.
>>>
>>
>> I did read them and it's really not clear.
>>
>
> I needed to have:
> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(self.plot)
>
> from the data I brought in I got the following when the variable
> above(self.plot) was inserted:
>
> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(u'plot')
>
> So by applying eval:
>
> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(eval(self.plot))
>
> It then inserted the following  when the variable self.plot was used:
>
> self.lines = self.newplot.plot(eval(plot)
>
> no u'stringhere' in the second version with eval around the variable.
>
>
> I hope that makes it clearer. Otherwise I might have to let you borrow
> my Windex to clean the screen.
>
In other words I needed (1,2,3,4) not u'(1,2,3,4)' to be inserted for
variable self.plot