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namedtuple and dataclasses both use eval(), so if you want to give up eval(), you'd need to give them up, too.

Interesting they use eval(), I wonder if their implementations could be changed to not use eval(). I guess in the end you could just use actual classes for these cases, but I sure do like namedtuple and dataclasses.

My bad: it's exec(), not eval(). And I wrote dataclasses, so you'd think I'd know better!

The issue is that it's dynamically generating methods. There has to be a way to get dynamically created code into python for this use case.

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