Need Help Differentiating Bad Commands From Incomplete Commands

[Jeff Epler]

You may want to look at the codeop module
[http://docs.python.org/lib/module-codeop.html]

>>> from codeop import compile_command
>>> compile_command("a = 3")                      # Complete code
<code object ? at 0xf7054920, file "<input>", line 1>
>>> print compile_command("for x in range(10):")  # incomplete code
None
>>> print compile_command("fer x in ronge(10):")  # syntax error
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
  File "<input>", line 1
    fer x in ronge(10):
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Note that this can detect invalid syntax ("fer" instead of "for") but
not undefined names (ronge instead of range)---that will only happen
when the code is executed, and range isn't found in anywhere.


Jeff
PS _PyParser_Grammar is an internal symbol, so whoever wrote that FAQ
should be given 20 lashes with a short piece of string
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