calling a function indirectly

[Rajarshi Guha]

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:24 in comp.lang.python Jeff Hinrichs wrote:

> If you wanted to get away from the dangerous eval, you could put your
> functions inside of a class and then,

Why is eval dangerous?

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