statements and expressions

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:32:25 -0300
"Alves, Carlos Alberto - Coelce" <calves at coelce.com.br> wrote:

> Why this two codes doesn't work?!
> 1º case:
> 	exec("print 'Carlos' ")
> 2º case:
> 	x = exec("something")
> In former case, is it beacouse exec(..) requires an expression as
argument
> and print "...." is a statement? And in the latter, beacouse statements
> doesn't support assignments?!

Case 1:  Works for me
Case 2:  Use eval rather than exec for expressions

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