> If it were someone other than Raymond Hettinger responsible for the use > of exec in namedtuple, I'd be a lot more suspicious of it.
I'm not going to be less suspicious based on a name. It reads like insanity, and the justification was terrible. Devin On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:44:18 -0500, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > >> We have that stupid exec trick in the Python stdlib. It has to die. >> >> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/6bf07db23445/Lib/collections/__init__.py#l240 > > > http://bugs.python.org/issue3974 > http://blog.ccpgames.com/kristjan/2011/05/28/namedtuple-and-exec/ > > If it were someone other than Raymond Hettinger responsible for the use > of exec in namedtuple, I'd be a lot more suspicious of it. > > > > -- > Steven > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
