[Python-Dev] exec documentation (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 01:48:59 CET 2009

Glenn Linderman wrote:

On approximately 1/9/2009 3:40 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Terry Reedy:

Glenn Linderman wrote:

in 2.6 and before execfile is listed in builtin functions, and is not marked deprecated, and exec is in the simple statements, and is not marked deprecated.

Because they are not going away in 2.7. Ah, that's the missing piece! I keep thinking 2.5, 2.6, 3.0, and forgetting that someone might make a 2.7 :) I bet I wasn't the first one to be confused by this, nor am I likely to be the last.

Not might - there is going to be a 2.7 (that will probably come out at the same time as 3.1) and we're already working on it:

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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