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5718.1.3 Queries on AST Objects
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61Two functions are provided which allow an application to determine if
62an AST was created as an expression or a suite. Neither of these
63functions can be used to determine if an AST was created from source
64code via <tt class="function">expr()</tt> or <tt class="function">suite()</tt> or from a parse tree
65via <tt class="function">sequence2ast()</tt>.
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72When <var>ast</var> represents an <code>'eval'</code> form, this function
73returns true, otherwise it returns false. This is useful, since code
74objects normally cannot be queried for this information using existing
75built-in functions. Note that the code objects created by
76<tt class="function">compileast()</tt> cannot be queried like this either, and are
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86This function mirrors <tt class="function">isexpr()</tt> in that it reports whether an
87AST object represents an <code>'exec'</code> form, commonly known as a
88``suite.'' It is not safe to assume that this function is equivalent
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