[Tutor] Re: My best GUI app so far.

[Jonathan Hayward]

Jacob S wrote.

> I try to avoid using eval() wherever possible, which is almost
> everywhere.  ;)   There's a huge security hole in using eval() on
> arbitrary strings, and it's not the greatest performance either.
> (Each invocation of eval() will generate bytecode and create a code
> object that does essentially the same thing as my explicit conversion
> code does, so by doing it manually you save a parsing/compiling step.)
>   You're not eval()ing arbitrary strings here, at least, but it's
> still good practice to only use eval() when absolutely necessary.

So, then, are you of the camp that believes that "a necessary eval() is 
still an eval()"? Quite a lot of good philosophers would agree with you!

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