from __future__ import ... within an RExec?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sun Aug 18 00:56:20 EDT 2002


Paul Rubin wrote:

> How about:
> 
> result = eval(re.sub("/","*1.0/", expression))

Yes, there are other solutions with varying levels of hackery involved. 
I'm wondering why a standard feature (from __future__ import division)
doesn't work in a RExec.

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