DN581843072

Subject: RE: Execfile() - bug / strange behavior - DN [1]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one@email.msn.com> - 05 Feb 2000 - comp.lang.python

 [Amit's execfile woes]

 [Tim]
 > You can't actually get the timbot interested in pursuing this, since
 > it never uses these things without explicity naming the dicts it
 > wants used as execution context.

 [Carel Fellinger]
 > And how then would it pass on the locals dict in this case?

 It wouldn't:  as a bot, it's incapable of wholly irrational behavior <wink>.
 Executing blobs of unknown code for their side-effects on local vrbls is at
 the very best extremely questionable practice.  "Dark and useless" is fun,
 but should be done in pvt -- like all other masturbatory practices.

 > According to the docs, and a recent explanation on this list, it is
 > not possible to use something like
 > execfile("1.txt", globals(), locals()),
 > as those are readonly in case of functions! One of the few dark
 > corners of Python IMHO.

 More a dark corner of the human soul, that someone would want to try that --
 Python lovingly intervenes, saying "beyond this line, thou shall not
 cross!".  Until you download bytecodehacks, anyway <wink>.

 as-a-language-of-the-world-python-can't-keep-out-the-devil-
     but-as-a-language-of-god-it-handcuffs-the-beast-ly y'rs  - tim