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"Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> writes:

> What is the return value of `exec`?

You can refer to the documentation for questions like that.
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#exec>

> Would that object be then used to iterate the sequence in 'a'?

The ‘for’ or ‘while’ statements are correct for iteration.

> I'm reading this:
> https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/

Why?

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