simple eval question

[Michael Hudson]

nbecker at fred.net (N Becker) writes:

> What is wrong with this?
> 
> eval ("print \"hello\"')

print is a statement.  eval evaluates an expression.

You could try

eval("sys.stdout.write('hello\n')")

or 

exec "print 'hello'"

Cheers,
M.

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