I use configparser to get values for my python script, but I need to call function stored in config.ini... Since all values in configparser are stored as strings, is it possible to transform string into syntax? If so, how?
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You can `exec` the string, or I suppose `eval` if it is a `lambda` expression ... – mgilson May 19 '13 at 18:12
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You can try using eval, documentation here.
Or you can try exec, documentation here.
By be careful, these are just quick and dirty way.
A better and much more safer method is to use getattr() (documentation) and setattr() (documentation) which indexes into globals.
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@Mirac7: `ast.literal_eval` is the safe way. It won't handle actual Python expressions like `'a' + 'b'`, but it will transform literal strings like `[1, 2]` and `{'a': 'b'}` into Python objects. `eval()` is easily exploitable. – Blender May 19 '13 at 18:23