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Re: exec and locals

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Date Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:40:28 +1100
Subject Re: exec and locals
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> py> def spam():
> ...     exec( """x = 23""" )
> ...     return x
> ...
> py> spam()
> 23
>
>
> (My real example is more complex than this.)
>
> According to the documentation of exec, I don't think this should
> actually work, and yet it appears to.

Doesn't work for me, in IDLE in 3.4.0b2, nor in command-line Python on
3.4.0rc1+ (from hg a couple of weeks ago). But it did (happen to?)
work in 2.7. What version did you use?

ChrisA

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exec and locals Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-26 13:15 +0000
  Re: exec and locals Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 00:40 +1100
  Re: exec and locals Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-26 14:46 +0100
    Re: exec and locals Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-27 00:25 +0000
      Re: exec and locals Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-02-27 16:34 +1300
        Re: exec and locals Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-27 04:39 +0000
          Re: exec and locals Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-02-28 00:29 +1300
            Re: exec and locals Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 22:41 +1100
            Re: exec and locals Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-28 01:49 +0000
      Re: exec and locals Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-02-27 03:47 +0000
      Re: exec and locals Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-02-26 23:20 -0500
        Re: exec and locals Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-27 04:47 +0000
          Re: exec and locals Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 16:05 +1100
  Re: exec and locals Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-26 14:55 +0100
  Re: exec and locals Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-02-26 14:00 +0000
    Re: exec and locals Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-27 00:31 +0000
      Re: exec and locals Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-02-27 09:59 +0000

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