On 27/05/13 07:40, Jim Mooney wrote:
Good to know that compile doesn't check syntax, since I erroneously
thought it did.
compile does check syntax.
py> compile("23 = 43", "", "exec")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to literal
The compile built-in function does the same as the Python compiler that
compiles your code before you run it. It has three modes:
- "exec", which operates in the same way that Python compiles a module;
- "single", which operates in the same way that Python compiles a single
statement in the interactive interpreter; and
- "eval", which tells Python that the code must be a single expression and not
a statement or a block of code.
--
Steven
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