rafi wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > > >>>> exec(eval("'a%s=%s' % (count, value)")) >>> >>>why using the eval? >>> >>>exec ('a%s=%s' % (count, value)) >>> >>>should be fine >> >>And this demonstrates why exec as a statement was a mistake ;) >> >>It actually is >> >>exec 'a%s=%s' % (count, value) > > > Noted. > > In the meantime another question I cannot find an answer to: any idea > why does eval() consider '=' as a syntax error? > > >>> eval ('a=1') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "<string>", line 1 > a=1 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Thanks > Because eval() takes an expression as an argument, and assignment is a statement.
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