On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There's also a bunch of specialised and complicated rules for what happens >> if you make a star import ("from module import *") inside a function, or >> call eval or exec without specifying a namespace. Both of these things are >> now illegal in Python 3. > > Huh? > >>>> exec("x = 42") >>>> x > 42 >>>> exec("x = 43", None, None) >>>> x > 43 > > That's in Python 3.4.0. Maybe I don't understand what you mean by > "without specifying a namespace".
*inside a function* >>> def f(): ... exec("x = 42") ... print(x) ... >>> x = 231 >>> f() 231 ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list