Python 3: exec arg 1

[Rob Williscroft]

Alan G Isaac wrote in news:myhdl.805$Aw2.484 at nwrddc02.gnilink.net in 
comp.lang.python:

> On 1/18/2009 9:36 AM Alan G Isaac apparently wrote:
>> I do not much care about the disappearance of ``execfile``.
>> I was asking, why is it a **good thing** that
>> ``exec`` does not accept a TextIOWrapper?
>> Or is it just not implemented yet?
>> What is the gain from this particular backwards
>> incompatibility (in the sense that ``exec(open(fname))``
>> no longer works)?
> 
> Still interested in an answer...
> Alan Isaac

http://bugs.python.org/issue1762972 (*)

IIRC, exec(open(fname).read()) is the Py 3.0 replacement.

*) For reference, 2 clicks away from <url:http://www.google.co.uk/search?
hl=en&q=TextIOWrapper+exec+site%3Abugs.python.org&meta=>

Rob.
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