On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Guys, I know that exec is kinda dangerous and newbies should be > discouraged from throwing every string they see at it, but this isn't my > second day Python programming, and it's not an accident that Python > supports the dynamic compilation and execution of source code at runtime. > It's a deliberate language feature. We're allowed to use it :-)
Code smell means "look at this". It doesn't mean "don't use this feature ever". :) Steven's looked into this thoroughly, I'm sure, and exec is important. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
