[Python-Dev] confusing exec error message in 3.0

[Georg Brandl]

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:
> (using 3.0a4)
> 
>  >>> exec(open("file.py"))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: exec() arg 1 must be a string, file, or code object, not 
> TextIOWrapper
> 
> so what's "file" referring to here?
> 
> (the above works under 2.5, of course)

See http://bugs.python.org/issue1762972 -- it has been decided to drop
that possibility.

I've a patch that fixes the wrong error message in http://bugs.python.org/issue3706.

Georg