Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I would just rip it out.
It turns out that it's not so easy. The exec statement currently can
modify the locals, which means that
def f():
exec "a=1"
print a
succeeds. To make that possible, the compiler flags scopes containing
exec statements as unoptimized and does not assume unbound names to
be global.
With exec being a function, currently the above function won't work
because "a" is assumed to be global.
I can see only two resolutions:
* change exec() semantics so that it cannot modify the locals
* do not make exec a function
Georg
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