Fair points Steven. Thanks for further refining my initial refinement. :-)
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Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> I (and many others) entirely avoid using 'eval' in all my code for many
> years, based on the security concerns that Chris rightly highlights. It's
> worth noting though, that RaymondH's talks last year on some valid uses of
> 'eval' and 'exec' have opened my eyes to it s
On Saturday, October 1, 2011 8:06:43 AM UTC+1, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
> > I'm probably missing something pretty obvious, but I was wondering if there
> > was a way of executing an arbitrary line of code somehow (such as a line of
> > code based
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm probably missing something pretty obvious, but I was wondering if there
> was a way of executing an arbitrary line of code somehow (such as a line of
> code based on user-input). There's the obvious use of "eval" that
Hello everyone,
I'm probably missing something pretty obvious, but I was wondering if there
was a way of executing an arbitrary line of code somehow (such as a line of
code based on user-input). There's the obvious use of "eval" that will
evaluate a function call, but that doesn't allow all thing
