PEP263 + exec statement

[Carlos Ribeiro]

Hello all,

I have a module that retrieves code snippets from a database to be
executed on the fly [1]. As I make heavy use of accented characters
inside strings (I'm in Brazil), it came to my attention that the exec
statement does not implement PEP 263 encoding checking. It does not
issue any warning when fed with arbitrary code that includes non-ASCII
characters. I am not sure if this is:

1) a design feature;
2) a bug on PEP 263 implementation;
3) a side effect of the fact that exec is not recommended anyway, and
that it will probably be deprecated at some point.

Does anyone have more information on this? I have tried Google in
vain. It seems that exec is not that popular (which is a good sign,
IMHO), and that nobody else had this problem before.

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[1] yes, I know about the security concerns regarding exec, but that
was the best design choice for several other reasons.

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Carlos Ribeiro
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