Recursion in compile()

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Narendra C. Tulpule:
>   is there any way to allow recusrion in compile()? Something like:
> 
> src_code = 'def fact(n):\n\tif n <= 1:\n\t\treturn 1\n\telse:' + \
>            '\n\t\treturn n * fact(n-1)\n\nprint fact(12)\n'
> cobj = compile(src_code, 'myfile', 'exec')
> eval(cobj)

This works fine for me -- it prints 479001600 as expected, on both
2.2.2 and 2.3b1.  What is the problem you're seeing?

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