Q: newbie wants to eval()

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"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at home.com>, in
<mailman.993937666.16928.python-list at python.org>:

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>         exec(input) # eval takes an expression, assignment is not

<blush> yes, so i found out. boy do i have egg on my face... i guess i'm
still thinking too Perl-ish, i couldn't get it out of my head that "eval"
is the way to execute arbitrary code. thanks to everybody for their help,
i've got it pretty much working now.

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