April 30, 1999
3:21 a.m.
To cut a long story short, I would like eval and exec to be capable of working with arbitrary mapping objects rather than only dictionaries. The general idea is that I can provide a class with mapping semantics, and pass this to exec/eval.
I agree that this would be seriously cool. It will definitely be in Python 2.0; it's already in JPython.
Seriously cool is an understatement. --david