"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
The Python Cookbook has a new entry which I thought was especially clever, and perhaps the only really good use of eval that I’ve ever seen. It is a class which simulates a spreadsheet. It is clever because it uses a class which simulates a dictionary as an environment in which to evaluate expressions. Quite clever, and very short.
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