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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by StavrosK on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:32AM (#23746781)
In twenty years of professional Python development, I've never used eval once. I'm not saying nobody ever needs it, but it's a niche feature that the vast majority of programs can do without, and is probably not worth the tradeoff.
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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by _ZeD_ on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:26AM (#23747140)
have you ever used namedtuple? then you have: https://bugs.python.org/issue3974
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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by duckerude on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:30AM (#23748261)
namedtuple could be implemented without exec/eval, and nowadays, it almost is.

This is the only part left that uses it, to create the constructor: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/collection...

Even there it's not strictly necessary. You could accomplish the same thing with a variadic function that does its own argument parsing, it'd just be slower and not play as well with reflection. So you could port it to a Python implementation without eval().

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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by danijar on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:24AM (#23748198)
It's necessary if you want to offer an interactive Python shell in the browser, e.g. for websites that teach programming or otherwise use programming as a means of user interaction.
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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by airstrike on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:38AM (#23749042)
Which is like 0.0001% of the web
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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by jononor on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:06AM (#23747013)
You probably have used a Python REPL though? Either on commandline or in iPython shell or similar. This relies on eval type functionality somewhere in the chain.
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