[Python-Dev] confusing exec error message in 3.0 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Aug 28 03:10:00 CEST 2008

2008/8/27 Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>:

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

(using 3.0a4) ahem. I could have sworn that I installed a beta, but I guess the Windows builds weren't fully synchronized when I did that. I still get the same error after updating to 3.0b2, though.

It's still there. It's a hold-over from 2.x where opened files were indeed usable for exec(). It was a rarely-used feature that turned out to be hard to implement given the continued reliance of the parser on <stdio.h> while the I/O system no longer uses that, so it was dropped with very little protests.

Please do fix it!

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