[Tutor] Assign exec() value to a variable

[Eggo why]

Hi Mats,
     Thank you very much.  It works the way I wanted.

Gary
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From: Tutor <tutor-bounces+eggo=hotmail.com at python.org> on behalf of Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tutor] Assign exec() value to a variable

On 10/10/19 3:26 PM, Eggo why wrote:
> Hi all,
>     How can I assign result from exec() into a variable.  Following is my code.
>
> import config
>
> sid='configdb'
> SID = ("config.%s()" % sid)
> print('--params: ',SID)
> params = exec(SID)
> print('-- params :',params)

exec doesn't return anything (i.e. None), and is not what you want for
this job - assuming the idea is "call function dynamically".

Instead you can use getattr to look up the function object in the
module, and then call it. Not promising this actually works since I
don't have your code:


import config

params = getattr(config, 'configdb')()


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