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

[Steve Dower]

I think the point is that the encoding may be embedded in the file as a coding comment and there's no obvious way to deal with that.

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From: Greg Ewing<mailto:greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
Sent: ‎6/‎14/‎2014 16:19
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Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

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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