[issue5524] execfile() removed from Python3

["Martin v. Löwis" <report@bugs.python.org> at psf.upfronthosting.co.za]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Ok... but there is the newline issue: (self quote) "exec() doesn't support 
> newline different than \n, see issue #4628".

So that issue should get fixed, then.

> And open_python() can be used for other usages than execfile() ;-)
> 
> Note: tokenize.open_python() is maybe not the best module and/or function 
> name.

I remain opposed to the entire concept.

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