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by yorwba 2952 days ago
That is because the exec runs in the global scope. When Python sees a variable that is not assigned to in the local scope, it is assumed to be a global variable, so when exec creates a new local variable, the load still fails because it looks into the globals dictionary.

But you can do this:

  def foo():
    exec("a = 1")
    return locals()['a']