[Zope] exec?? issue

[Greg Conway]

Hi all,

I've got a problem evaluating a variable which I don't know how to go about
solving...

Consider the following code:

Counter=0
for GetDoc in context.DisplayCustomerSQL(SelectCID=TestCID):
  print "Customer name is %s %s" % (GetDoc.FirstName, GetDoc.LastName)
  for FieldCount in FieldName:
    ExecField = "GetDoc."+FieldName[Counter]
    print "value of field %s is %s" % (FieldCount, ExecField)
    Counter=Counter+1

(yes I realise there are probably tidier ways to do this - especially the
counter bit! - but hey I am learning!! albeit bad habits.... :)

Prior to this the python script scans a database record, and stores a string
of field names (represented with the record as [Field1], [Field2], etc).

So, by the time the script above gets to the second-from-last line, the var
ExecField contains something like GetDoc.Field1 or GetDoc.Field2.

As you've probably guessed by now, I want to display the literal value of
ExecField, instead than the word "ExecField" at this stage.... I'm not
python programmer, but having scanned my copy of "learing Python"
thoroughly, I reckon I'd use the "exec" command to do this.

Except I'm not in Python, I'm in Zope. And using 'exec ExecField' doesn't
work. Nor does "_.exec" which has helped me before in these cases!!

I seem to remember reading somewhere that exec and eval were considered too
powerful and had been removed in Zope's python - now it seems that is
definately the case!!

So, does anybody have any idea how I might solve my dilemma...??

(which, by the way, I've arrived at by giving up on trying to Mail Merge
Zope with Word, and instead I'm now trying to build the entire docs to be
Mail Merged in Zope!!!)

many thanks for any help!

Regards,

Greg Conway.

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