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Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 21:31:13 -0600
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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 7:39 PM, zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
> Similarly, you'd want:
>
>>>> encode(codestr)
>
> to instantiate all objects in the codestr.  You can't do this with eval, because it doesn't allow assignment (eval(n=2) returns "InvalidSyntax").

Is exec what you're looking for?

>>> exec('n = 2')
>>> print(n)
2