[Python-Dev] PEP 3000 and exec (original) (raw)
Christopher Armstrong radeex at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 02:31:09 CEST 2005
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On 10/11/05, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> 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.
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