Why is using 'eval' a bad practice?

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00:43 Accepted answer (Score 239)
01:58 Answer 2 (Score 47)
03:15 Answer 3 (Score 26)
03:49 Answer 4 (Score 23)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1832...

Accepted answer links:
[setattr]: http://docs.python.org/library/functions...

Answer 4 links:
[builtin]: http://docs.python.org/library/functions...

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