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titaniumdecoy

Jul 11th, 2006 7:51 PM

Dynamically set variables?

Say I import another Python script into the Python script I'm working on. I want to be able to set variables in that file, OR in the file I'm working in, by passing a single variable. For example:

import thing



def set_variable(cls):

      cls.new_variable = "cheese"



set_variable(thing)

set_variable(self) # This doesn't work!



print thing.new_variable

print new_variable # I want both of these to print "cheese"!

Arevos

Jul 11th, 2006 8:09 PM

Hmm... Perhaps something like:

def set_variable(name, value, obj = None):

    if obj is None:

        globals()[name] = value

    else:

        vars(obj)[name] = value

To set a variable in the local module, omit the obj argument.

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