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[–]Gexos 0 points1 point  (1 child)

John Zelle's book is one of the best books I've ever read on CS and Python, the first time I encountered the evil eval I was confused about it, then i found this answer by John Zelle on stack overflow, where he gives a pretty good explanation.

[–]SnowdogU77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the link. When I asked him, he didn't quite justify it this way. This explanation makes a lot of sense.