Antoon Pardon wrote: > And from the documentation > from exec I get the impression you can use it so that a function > will have temporarily a different reference to global namespace.
That impression confuses two things: (1) A function object carries a global namespace with it. That namespace is fixed when the function definition is executed, not when the function is called. (2) You may provide a global namespace to exec. What's in that may be altered by rebinding operations (=, def, etc.) in the exec't string. Functions defined here use that namespace as their global namespace while functions just executed here don't. If you could provide a function with a different namespace when it's called, e. g f() in namespace would look up its globals in namespace, that might be an interesting concept but it's not how Python works. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
