Jacek Generowicz wrote: > Inspecting the implementation of execfile suggests to me that the > assignments are performed by a hard-wired call to PyDict_SetItem, in > the opcode implementations, so it looks like ideas based on giving > execfile a globals dictionary with an instrumented __setitem__ are > probably doomed to failure. For Python 2.4 here is evidence against that assumption:
$ cat config.py a = 42 b = "so what" >> class Dict(dict): ... def __setitem__(self, k, v): ... print k, "->", v ... dict.__setitem__(self, k, v) ... >>> execfile("config.py", Dict()) a -> 42 b -> so what We are all doomed to succeed, then... Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list