[Python-Dev] issue5578 - explanation (original) (raw)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Wed Apr 1 14:12:41 CEST 2009

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Well hold on for a minute, I remember we used to have an exec statement in a class body in the standard library, to define some file methods in socket.py IIRC.

But why an exec?! Surely there must be some other way to do this than an exec?

Chris

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