On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > py> def spam(): > ... exec( """x = 23""" ) > ... return x > ... > py> spam() > 23 > > > (My real example is more complex than this.) > > According to the documentation of exec, I don't think this should > actually work, and yet it appears to.
Doesn't work for me, in IDLE in 3.4.0b2, nor in command-line Python on 3.4.0rc1+ (from hg a couple of weeks ago). But it did (happen to?) work in 2.7. What version did you use? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
