On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:50:42 -0800, alex23 wrote: >> 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.
In fairness there are alternative implementations. They are not identical to the version using exec. There is at least one use-case for *not* using exec, even at the cost of functionality: a restricted Python environment without exec. On the other hand, a restricted Python without exec is not actually Python. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
