On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:56:25 +0000, Richie Hindle wrote: > > [David] >> I'm trying to write something with the same brevity >> as perl's one-liner >> >> eval "\$$1=\$2" while @ARGV && $ARGV[0]=~ /^(\w+)=(.*)/ && shift; > > import sys, re > for arg in sys.argv[1:]: > if re.match(r'\w+=.*', arg): > exec arg > else: > break
That piece of code is quite dangerous, since it is calling exec on an arbitrary string supplied by a user. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
