Re: [Pythoncard-users] Executing python scripts from a python program.

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Hedlund, Peter wrote:
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> Greetings,
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>   I am in need of some assistance on this one.
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> I want the user to be able to edit a python script file and allow that 
> script to be run from within my main python program.
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> Now before everyone jumps on the execfile bandwagon I need to clarify 
> some things.
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>  
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> The main python program has several other python scripts in the project. 
>
> I am using pythoncard for my user ide.
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> The user script will need to call functions already defined in the 
> main.py and pass information back to main.py.
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>  
>
> Main program opens a serial port to a device
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> User script will send commands to the device  by way of functions in main
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>  
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> Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
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>  
>
Probably being naive, but ....
    Can't you simply do an eval() of the user script ?

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