Alan G Isaac wrote in news:myhdl.805$aw2....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net in comp.lang.python:
> On 1/18/2009 9:36 AM Alan G Isaac apparently wrote: >> I do not much care about the disappearance of ``execfile``. >> I was asking, why is it a **good thing** that >> ``exec`` does not accept a TextIOWrapper? >> Or is it just not implemented yet? >> What is the gain from this particular backwards >> incompatibility (in the sense that ``exec(open(fname))`` >> no longer works)? > > Still interested in an answer... > Alan Isaac http://bugs.python.org/issue1762972 (*) IIRC, exec(open(fname).read()) is the Py 3.0 replacement. *) For reference, 2 clicks away from <url:http://www.google.co.uk/search? hl=en&q=TextIOWrapper+exec+site%3Abugs.python.org&meta=> Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
