Adding Blender Datapaths together as strings and then executing the resulting string

Question

is it possible to somehow execute this, so that I get the status of the show_name option?

import bpy

a = "show_name" 
b = "bpy.data.scenes['Scene'].objects['Cube']" + "." + a

Answer 1

You can use

eval(b)

eval() will take any valid Python expression string as argument.

To set a value, use

exec(c)

But be careful, exec() will execute ANY python code, so it is considered a very dangerous command, especially if the string is from user input.

I would advice rethinking how your code is setup, there is usually very little reason to access bpy in these fashion.