[Tutor] The exec command and namespaces

[Jerry Hill]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Jaidev Deshpande
<deshpande.jaidev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Supposed I have a string containing a python script and I exec that script.
>
> Is there a way to keep track of the variables that this exec() command creates?

Sure.  You can provide the dictionaries that exec will use for globals
and locals.  So, something like this might get you started:


>>> my_globals = {}
>>> my_locals = {}
>>> exec "favorite_color = 'blue'" in my_globals,my_locals
>>> print(my_locals)

{'favorite_color': 'blue'}