PEP 238 (revised)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at home.com
Sat Jul 28 12:29:28 EDT 2001


"Christian Tanzer" <tanzer at swing.co.at> wrote in message
news:mailman.996332934.4114.python-list at python.org...
>And I can use Skip Montanaro's division finder to spot many places in
>need of checking. Yet I also know that my applications contain quite
a
>number of strings which are feed to eval/exec at run-time. These are
>much harder to identify.

So DivisionFinder needs to be extended to also intelligently present
strings with embedded
/s that are not obvious directory separators.

>And then there's code I don't even know about. Some of it written by
>me and used by others. Some of it written by God-knows-who and fed as
>a script to one of my applications. Do you have a recipe for this
one,
>too?

I do not.  Because of your comments, I will extend my discussion of
feature deletion when I revise my essay on language change and code
breaks.

Terry J. Reedy






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