Chris Withers wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >>>> But anyways this is moot, the bug was only about exec in a class body >>>> *nested inside a function*. >>> Indeed, I just hate seeing execs and it was an interesting mental >>> exercise >>> to try and get rid of the above one ;-) >>> >>> Assuming it breaks no tests, would there be objection to me >>> committing the >>> above change to the Python 3 trunk? >> >> That's up to Benjamin. Personally, I live by "if it ain't broke, don't >> fix it." :-) > > Anything using an exec
that can be done in some other (more pythonic way) > is broken by definition ;-) > > Benjamin? > We've just had a fairly clear demonstration that small semantic changes to the language can leave unexpected areas borked. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Want to know? Come to PyCon - soon! http://us.pycon.org/ _______________________________________________ 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