# 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

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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 '&gt;&gt;&gt;' 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 filename attribute of the code object will be filename, which defaults to ''. Returns None if source is not valid Python code, but is a prefix of valid Python code.

If there is a problem with source, an exception will be raised. SyntaxError is raised if there is invalid Python syntax, and OverflowError or ValueError if there is an invalid literal.

The symbol argument determines whether source is compiled as a statement ('single', the default), as a sequence of statement ('exec') or as an expression ('eval'). Any other value will cause ValueError to be raised.

Instances of this class have ~object.call methods identical in signature to the built-in function compile, but with the difference that if the instance compiles program text containing a future statement, the instance 'remembers' and compiles all subsequent program texts with the statement in force.

Instances of this class have ~object.call methods identical in signature to compile_command; the difference is that if the instance compiles program text containing a future statement, the instance 'remembers' and compiles all subsequent program texts with the statement in force.

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