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Execute Python String inside a Python code

If I have a srting inside my Python code that looks like this:

x = "print('Hello World')"

I want to execute it as if it is like a seperate .py file. Is there something like

execute(x)

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>Solution :

exec(x)

See the documentation

But be careful of injection vulnerabilities: if the string comes from a user, they will have the power to control your computer – e.g. something like __import__('shutil').rmtree('/') could remove a whole directory.

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