On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Terry Jan Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 5/23/2013 12:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> On Wed, 22 May 2013 22:31:04 +0000, Alister wrote: >> >>> Please write out 1000 time (without using any form of loop) >>> >>> "NEVER use input in python <3.0 it is EVIL"* > > >> But all joking aside, eval is dangerous, yes, but it is not "evil". > > > He put that label on *input*, not eval -- I presume for hiding dangerous > eval.
Aside: Why was PHP's /e regexp option ever implemented? I can understand evalling inputted text - that's how you write an interactive interpreter. But why would you arbitrarily eval the result of a regexp replacement? That seems... really weird. Like building a gun with a "Reverse" switch that fires the bullet down the butt instead of the barrel. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
