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Is this use of exec pythonic?
buran

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Feb-07-2020, 12:23 PM
can you elaborate what you want to achieve, because this looks very much like XYproblem. I guess you try to create a name dynamically and that is really bad idea. But the exec snippet is even worse
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Is this use of exec pythonic? - by psolar - Feb-07-2020, 12:13 PM
RE: Is this use of exec pythonic? - by buran - Feb-07-2020, 12:23 PM

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