Passing meta-characters to Python as arguments from command line

Question

I\'m making a Python program that will parse the fields in some input lines. I\'d like to let the user enter the field separator as an option from the command line. I\'m usi

Answer 1

The quick and dirty way is to to eval it, like this:

eval(options.delimiter, {}. {})

The extra empty dicts are there to prevent accidental clobbering of your program.