Creating function object from text

[George Yoshida]

Edward C. Jones wrote:

> Suppose I have a piece of text that defines a function:
> 
> text ="""\
> def fun(i):
>     return i + 2
> """
> 
> How do I turn this into a function object, f, which can be called or 
> passed around?

Aside from Peter's advice, I'd recommend you to look into timeit.py and 
doctest.py.
These two library is a good example of how to use exec and compile in a 
  real application.

-- 
George