simple eval question

[Cliff Wells]

On Friday 02 November 2001 12:41, N Becker wrote:
> What is wrong with this?
>
> eval ("print \"hello\"')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "<string>", line 1
>     print "hello"
>         ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I expected that eval takes a string an evaluates it as input to the
> interpreter, as if it had been typed into the command line.  Was I wrong?

Try exec rather than eval.

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Cliff Wells
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