[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! [Now with blog post] (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Feb 24 20:30:12 CET 2009

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Jeff Hall <hall.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't see Tav actually say this but are we all agreed that compile() should be removed from builtins?

I personally disagree -- I think we should instead add restrictions on the creation of new code objects by calling the constructor directly. Calling compile() should be fine.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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