Executing bytecode from a string.

[Michael Hudson]

"Benjamin Scherrey" <scherrey at proteus-tech.com> writes:

> I'm curious as to how difficult it would be to take a string that contains
> compiled bytecode, load it into memory, give it a function name then
> execute that function. 

Fairly hard: you'd need to guess or work out all the other parameters
to new.code such as argcount, stacksize,...

> I'm thinking of a database that contains compiled objects that I can
> load and execute. 

You'd likely be much better off storing marshalled code objects than
raw code strings.  Whether that would suffice is hard to say from your
description, but it's probably a good start.

Or just Python source...

> I'm also curious as to what level of grainularity this would work -
> module, class, class method, function?  

I think "it depends".

> Anyone tried to do this before? 

Almost certainly :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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