Re: Exec woes

2009-01-29 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:15:57 -, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: "Rhodri James" wrote: To: Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:12 AM Subject: Re: Exec woes On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:47:00 -, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > This is actually not correct - it is the root cause

Re: Exec woes

2009-01-29 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Rhodri James" wrote: To: Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:12 AM Subject: Re: Exec woes > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:47:00 -, Hendrik van Rooyen > wrote: > > This is actually not correct - it is the root cause of my trouble. > > if you write, in a nested scope

Re: Exec woes

2009-01-28 Thread Rhodri James
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:47:00 -, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Stephen Hansen wrote: Exec is a statement, not a function nor an object: even though you can enclose parens around its arguments like you do later on, they don't have any syntax meaning This is actually not correct - it is th

Re: Exec woes

2009-01-27 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Stephen Hansen wrote: >Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >>IDLE 1.1.3 No Subprocess > help(exec) >>SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>Its the same under Linux SuSe, Python 2.5.1. >> >>I think this is a BUG. > >Exec is a statement, not a function nor an object: even though you can enc

Re: Exec woes

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb: >> It starts with the conspiracy of silence at the interactive prompt: >> >> Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on >> win32 >> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for m

Re: Exec woes

2009-01-27 Thread Stephen Hansen
> IDLE 1.1.3 No Subprocess > >>> help(exec) > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>> > Its the same under Linux SuSe, Python 2.5.1. > > I think this is a BUG. > Exec is a statement, not a function nor an object: even though you can enclose parens around its arguments like you do later on

Re: Exec woes

2009-01-27 Thread Christian Heimes
Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb: > It starts with the conspiracy of silence at the interactive prompt: > > Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. > > IDLE 1.1.3 No Subprocess >

Exec woes

2009-01-27 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
It starts with the conspiracy of silence at the interactive prompt: Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. IDLE 1.1.3 No Subprocess >>> help(exec) SyntaxError: invalid synt