I'm writing a (very simple) command line window for use within my
Tkinter GUI menu driven program (Aside: I want to provide a Matlab
like command line capability within an otherwise menu driven
program ... but where the script language is Python). The guts of
executing the command are (where commandtext is a text variable
captured from my command line window)
try:
exec(commandtext)
except:
print 'failed to execute command' # we'll do something
more sophisticated in due course
The question is if commandtext contains invalid python I thought exec
raised an exception that I could capture. I seem unable to get this
to throw an exception no matter what is in commandtext. I assume I'm
missing something simple here.
Alternatively should I open a process with popen ... I want to be
able to modify variables in the existing scope and the way I read
popen I can't do that.
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