On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Arnaud Delobelle <arno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You don't know that, an implementation may for example set __bultins__ >> to None, prior to returning, its not an unreasonable thing to do and >> the docs don't say they can't. > > I haven't studied the docs but I'm certain that such an implementation > would break a lot of code.
For example: a = 42 exec "a += 1729" print(a) ...since print would no longer be available in the global namespace. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
