"Steve Holden" schrieb > > I simply meant that the whole source has to be presented > to the exec statement and not chunked into lines. > That's what I meant: With exec open(f).read() it is not broken into several exec invocations.
> > I was probably just a little over-zealous in pursuing > correct English usage, in which case please accept > my apology. > The apology is on my part, I didn't explain my thinking clearly enough. Thanks for your explanations. Makes my newbie understanding of Python much more robust. Regards Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list