In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Dembinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Benji York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[snap] > >>> code = x + '= 0' >>> exec(code) >> >> You should generally stay away from exec for lots of reasons. > >Code 'refactorizability' is one of them.
There's an affirmative way to express this that I can't now make the time to generate. Yes, you're both right that, as popular as some make out such coding is in Lisp (and Perl and PHP), the per- ception that there's a need for it generally indicates there's a cleaner algorithm somewhere in the neighborhood. In general, "application-level" programming doesn't need exec() and such. PyPy and debugger writers and you other "systems" programmers already know who you are. My own view is that refactorizability is one of the secondary arguments in this regard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
