diff --git a/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html b/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html index 5b5704b..8f98b49 100644 --- a/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html +++ b/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ reduce(a, b, c)

exec statement

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Just as the print statement became a function in Python 3, so too has the exec statement. The exec() function takes a string which contains arbitrary Python code and executes it as if it were just another statement or expression. +

Just as the print statement became a function in Python 3, so too has the exec statement. The exec() function takes a string which contains arbitrary Python code and executes it as if it were just another statement or expression. exec() is like eval(), but even more powerful and evil. The eval() function can only evaluate a single expression, but exec() can execute multiple statements, imports, function declarations — essentially an entire Python program in a string.
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