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Re: exec and locals

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Date 2014-02-27 16:05 +1100
Subject Re: exec and locals
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.7405.1393477521.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Guys, I know that exec is kinda dangerous and newbies should be
> discouraged from throwing every string they see at it, but this isn't my
> second day Python programming, and it's not an accident that Python
> supports the dynamic compilation and execution of source code at runtime.
> It's a deliberate language feature. We're allowed to use it :-)

Code smell means "look at this". It doesn't mean "don't use this
feature ever". :) Steven's looked into this thoroughly, I'm sure, and
exec is important.

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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