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!codeop --- Compile Python code

synopsis: Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code. Source code: Lib/codeop.py The !codeop module provides utilities upon which the Python read-eval-print loop can be emulated, as is done in the code module. As a result, you probably don't want to use the module directly; if you want to include suc

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). synopsis: Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code. Source code: Lib/codeop.py The !codeop module provides utilities upon which the Python read-eval-print loop can be emulated, as is done in the code module. As a result, you probably don't want to use the module directly; if you want to include such a loop in your program you probably want to use the code module instead. There are two parts to this job #. Being able to tell if a line of input completes a Python statement: in short, telling whether to print '>>>' or '...' next. #. Remembering which future statements the user has entered, so subsequent input can be compiled with these in effect. The !codeop module provides a way of doing each of these things, and a way of doing them both. Tries to compile source, which should be a string of Python code and return a code object if source is valid Python code. In that case, the filen Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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