29 Jul
2001
29 Jul
'01
10:40 p.m.
def spam(x,y): ... exec y ... def eggs(): ... print x
That one is just fine I think.
Why is 'import *' inside a function fine, but a bare exec isn't ? Weren't you going to deprecate bare exec's altogether ?
You mean the other way around don't you? I proposed a warning for import * but not for bare exec. I guess for me the difference is that import * is just stupid (potentially lots of work going on every time you call the function) while the main problem with bare exec is that it gets in the way of optimizers and the like. Since we don't have an optimizer (yet) I don't care so much (yet). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)