Calling Python Code Snippets within Python Application

[Cameron Laird]

In article <slrnb9kumi.1q1.rmunn at localhost.localdomain>,
Robin Munn  <rmunn at pobox.com> wrote:
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>Look at the eval() or execfile() built-ins:
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>    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html
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>Note that eval() evaluates an expression -- if you want to use eval() to
>run chunks of Python code, you might have to wrap those chunks in a
>function and eval() the result of calling that function. execfile() will
>work if the code you want is in a file; if it's in a database, you might
>have to write it to a temporary file and then execfile() that temporary
>file.
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?  When is it advantageous to write to a temporary file
and apply execfile() rather than exec directly?
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