> Ok... but there is the newline issue: (self quote) "exec() doesn't support 
> newline different than \n, see issue #4628".

So that issue should get fixed, then.

> And open_python() can be used for other usages than execfile() ;-)
> 
> Note: tokenize.open_python() is maybe not the best module and/or function 
> name.

I remain opposed to the entire concept.