[Python-Dev] Those import related syntax errors again...

Samuele Pedroni Samuele Pedroni <pedroni@inf.ethz.ch>
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:40:24 +0100 (MET)


Hi.

So few code breakage is nice.

[Jeremy Hilton]
> I also realized that the exec rule is still too string.  If the exec
> statement passes an explicit namespace -- "exec in foo" -- then there
> shouldn't be any problem, because the executed code can't affect the
> current namespace.  If this form is allowed, the exec errors in xpcom
> and Zope disappear.
My very personal feeling is that *any* rule on exec just sounds
arbitrary (even if motived and acceptable).

regards, Samuele Pedroni.