Thanks!

2009/11/5 Serdar Tumgoren <zstumgoren@[...].com> 
> 
>  > I would like to know how would I evaluate a string expression in python.
>  > For example, if i say:
>  >>>> a = "3*2"
>  > I want to do something to evaluate the variable 'a' to give me 6. How
>  > can I do this?
>  >
> 
>  I think the "eval" built-in function is what you're after:
> 
>  >>> a = "3*2"
>  >>> eval(a)
>  6
> 
>  http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html
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