Why are closures broken within exec?
- by Devin Jeanpierre
In Python 2.6,
>>> exec "print (lambda: a)()" in dict(a=2), {}
2
>>> exec "print (lambda: a)()" in globals(), {'a': 2}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda>
NameError: global name…