Just to follow up on my own post... I went and grabbed that MiniScriptEval package, and it was super easy. Literally just
import eval eval.variables.old = 1234 result = eval.eval("old * 5")
...and it gives me a correct result. If I had to do this challenge over again, I would just use this!
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Just to follow up on my own post... I went and grabbed that MiniScriptEval package, and it was super easy. Literally just
import evaleval.variables.old = 1234
result = eval.eval("old * 5")
...and it gives me a correct result. If I had to do this challenge over again, I would just use this!