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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:43:48 +1100
Subject: Re: How to define "exec" method on a class object? Get syntax error due to built in command
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Kyle <stalkernew@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like we currently use 2.3.4.
>
> This still wouldn't solve the problem because now the user would need to call something like  getattr(wbt, "exec")(<args>) instead of wbt.exec(<args>) like all the other commands.
>
> I think the easiest thing for me to do would be to just change the command name from exec to something else.

..... that's pretty ancient. Any chance you can upgrade at least to 2.7.3?

ChrisA