On 10/11/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My idea was to make the compiler smarter so that it would recognize > exec() even if it was just a function. > > Another idea might be to change the exec() spec so that you are > required to pass in a namespace (and you can't use locals() either!). > Then the whole point becomes moot.
I think that's a great idea. It goes a step towards a more analyzable Python, and really, I've never found a *good* use case for allowing this invisible munging of locals. I would guess that it would simplify the implementation, given that there are currently so many special cases around exec, including when used with nested scopes. -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | -- http://radix.twistedmatrix.com | Release Manager, Twisted Project \\\V/// | -- http://twistedmatrix.com |o O| | w----v----w-+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
