On Nov 10, 11:26 am, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't really know anything about him or why people respect him, so I > have no reason to share your faith.
But you're happy to accept the opinions of random posters saying "exec is evil"? (And it's really not a good idea to be proud of your ignorance...) > Like, why can't "--" be a name? Why would you ever want it to be? > I don't like the use of exec, and I don't like the justification (it > seems handwavy). As opposed to your in-depth critique? > I pointed this out in a thread full of people saying > "never EVER use exec this way", so it's obviously not just me that > thinks this is awful. No, instead you have a thread full of people happy to criticise something for which they're providing no alternative implementation. You can't exactly say _why_ it's bad, other than other people have echoed it, but you won't actually do anything about it. > I think somebody will read it and think this is a good idea. Just as I thought. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
