replacement of rexec?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> You could use the new compiler module to parse and inspect the result
    >> like this:
    >> 
    >> import compiler as cplr
    >> mod = cplr.parseFile("filetoload")
    >> for node in mod.node.nodes:
    >>    if 'Function' in str(node):
    >>       break

    Huaiyu> Thanks for the suggestion.  Is there existing code to assemble
    Huaiyu> the parsed tree back to the intended Python object?  It's
    Huaiyu> probably not too hard to write one, but I wonder if this is
    Huaiyu> already done?

I'm not aware of anything.  Assuming your inspection process shows the file
is okay, why not just call execfile()?

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