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Cool Python "spreadsheet"

Use eval() to drive spreadsheet style logic. The sleeper feature of Py2.4 is the ability to use any object with a mapping interface as the locals argument to eval().

Cute Python language hack.

Languages that allow you to hook into their variable lookup logic open the door to many cool hacks.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-12-03 20:06 | Fun | Python | other blogs | 13036 reads

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is this hooking into variable lookup?

I don't think so. To me it seems a normal defnition of the 'dictionary-like' operator.
It would have been variable lookup hooking if the author used __setattr__( __getattr__, __set__, __getattribute__, __get__, __del__, whatever)

By gabriele renzi at Wed, 2004-12-08 11:10 | login or register to post comments

Ruby meanderings

Related to this subject is Slowing Down Calculations, an implementation in Ruby with the question of delaying calculations for the purpose of maintaining cell dependency.

By Chris Rathman at Wed, 2004-12-08 21:18 | login or register to post comments