On 1/18/2009 9:36 AM Alan G Isaac apparently wrote:
I do not much care about the disappearance of ``execfile``. I was asking, why is it a **good thing** that ``exec`` does not accept a TextIOWrapper? Or is it just not implemented yet? What is the gain from this particular backwards incompatibility (in the sense that ``exec(open(fname))`` no longer works)?
Still interested in an answer... Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
