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[creeperton]

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[Gideon Zhi]

You're not doing anything with the output from eval. It's evaluating, but because you're not assigning the end result to anything, that result gets lost to the ether. Try something along the lines of:

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listName = eval(newList)
print listName


Also, you want to be careful of your PEP8 identifier names.

[tryphon]

The result of :

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my_list.append(my_element)
is None. The side-effect is now that my_list contains one more item.

So I guess GideonZhi's code would result in displaying None.

Maybe :

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eval(newList)
eval('print ' + listName)

Also, newList is a bad name because it's a string, not a list, and it describes a command (so append_cmd would be better).

[Kiyoshi Aman]

Protip: If you put your lists in a dict you don't have to eval() a damn thing.

[creeperton]

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