[Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 15 01:18:51 CEST 2014


Fabio Zadrozny wrote:
> Well, I must say that the exec(open().read()) is not really a proper 
> execfile implementation because it may fail because of encoding 
> issues...

It's not far off, though -- all it needs is an optional
encoding parameter.

-- 
Greg


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