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| 56 | 6.14 The <tt class="keyword">exec</tt> statement |
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| 64 | <td><a id='tok-exec_stmt' xml:id='tok-exec_stmt'>exec_stmt</a></td> |
| 65 | <td>::=</td> |
| 66 | <td>"exec" <a class='grammartoken' href="Booleans.html#tok-expression">expression</a> |
| 67 | ["in" <a class='grammartoken' href="Booleans.html#tok-expression">expression</a> ["," <a class='grammartoken' href="Booleans.html#tok-expression">expression</a>]]</td></tr> |
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| 76 | This statement supports dynamic execution of Python code. The first |
| 77 | expression should evaluate to either a string, an open file object, or |
| 78 | a code object. If it is a string, the string is parsed as a suite of |
| 79 | Python statements which is then executed (unless a syntax error |
| 80 | occurs). If it is an open file, the file is parsed until EOF and |
| 81 | executed. If it is a code object, it is simply executed. In all |
| 82 | cases, the code that's executed is expected to be be valid as file |
| 83 | input (see section <A href="file-input.html#file-input">8.2</A>, ``File input''). Be aware that |
| 84 | the <tt class="keyword">return</tt> and <tt class="keyword">yield</tt> statements may not be used |
| 85 | outside of function definitions even within the context of code passed |
| 86 | to the <tt class="keyword">exec</tt> statement. |
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| 89 | In all cases, if the optional parts are omitted, the code is executed |
| 90 | in the current scope. If only the first expression after <tt class="keyword">in</tt> |
| 91 | is specified, it should be a dictionary, which will be used for both |
| 92 | the global and the local variables. If two expressions are given, |
| 93 | they are used for the global and local variables, respectively. |
| 94 | If provided, <var>locals</var> can be any mapping object. |
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| 96 | <span class="versionnote">Changed in version 2.4: |
| 97 | formerly <var>locals</var> was required to be a dictionary.</span> |
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| 100 | As a side effect, an implementation may insert additional keys into |
| 101 | the dictionaries given besides those corresponding to variable names |
| 102 | set by the executed code. For example, the current implementation |
| 103 | may add a reference to the dictionary of the built-in module |
| 104 | <tt class="module">__builtin__</tt> under the key <code>__builtins__</code> (!). |
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| 108 | <strong>Programmer's hints:</strong> |
| 109 | dynamic evaluation of expressions is supported by the built-in |
| 110 | function <tt class="function">eval()</tt>. The built-in functions |
| 111 | <tt class="function">globals()</tt> and <tt class="function">locals()</tt> return the current global |
| 112 | and local dictionary, respectively, which may be useful to pass around |
| 113 | for use by <tt class="keyword">exec</tt>. |
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