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Is this use of exec pythonic? - psolar - Feb-07-2020
Hello all,
Consider this code:
self._t10_test = None self._t20_test = None self._t30_test = None id_lst = ['10', '20', '30'] msg_lst = ['Message for A', 'Message for B', 'Message for C')It would be correct to make this use of exec?
for id, msg in zip(id_lst, msg_lst):
exec((f'self._t{id}_test = {msg}')Or would be more pythonic this?for id, msg in zip(id_lst, msg_lst):
set_msg(id, msg)
def set_msg(id, msg):
if id == '10':
self._t10_test = msg
elif id == '20':
self._t20_test = msg
elif id == '30':
self._t30_test = msg
Thank you all in advance for your thoughts!
RE: Is this use of exec pythonic? - buran - Feb-07-2020
can you elaborate what you want to achieve, because this looks very much like XYproblem. I guess you try to create a name dynamically and that is really bad idea. But the
exec snippet is even worse