Is this possible: scoping question with exec

[Emile van Sebille]

>From the Python Reference Manual:

6.13 The exec statement

exec_stmt:    "exec" expression ["in" expression ["," expression]]

This statement supports dynamic execution of Python code. The first
expression should evaluate to either a string, an open file object, or a
code object. If it is a string, the string is parsed as a suite of Python
statements which is then executed (unless a syntax error occurs). If it is
an open file, the file is parsed until EOF and executed. If it is a code
object, it is simply executed.
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As far as it being effectively the same as eval, it looks like that to me,
but someone else will have to explain what differences there may be.  I get
similar results for all of:

>>> exec(a.func_code, {'b':4})
4
>>> eval(a.func_code, {'b':4})
4
>>> exec a.func_code in {'b':4}
4
>>>

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Bengt Richter" <bokr at accessone.com> wrote in message
news:3b86a05d.354015106 at wa.news.verio.net...
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:12:57 -0700, "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com>
wrote:
>
> > exec(a.func_code, {'b':4})
> >
> That seems to work, but where is that form of exec statement documented?
> Is that form effectively equivalent to eval?
>
> BTW, I thought this was interesting, to see which global gets
> overridden and which doesn't:
>
>  >>> def a():
>  ...     print 'a() thinks b is "%s"' % b
>  ...
>  >>> b='from interactive binding'
>  >>> exec """
>  ... print 'exec-ed string thinks a="%s",b="%s"' % (a,b)
>  ... a()
>  ... """ in {'a':a, 'b':'from exec dict'}
>  exec-ed string thinks a="<function a at 007FA77C>",b="from exec dict"
>  a() thinks b is "from interactive binding"
>  >>> exec a.func_code in {'b':'from exec dict'}
>  a() thinks b is "from exec dict"
>  >>>
>