code module provides facilities to implement
read-eval-print loops in Python. Two classes and convenience
functions are included which can be used to build applications which
provide an interactive interpreter prompt.
This class deals with parsing and interpreter state (the user's
namespace); it does not deal with input buffering or prompting or
input file naming (the filename is always passed in explicitly).
The optional locals argument specifies the dictionary in
which code will be executed; it defaults to a newly created
dictionary with key
'__name__' set to
'__doc__' set to
Closely emulate the behavior of the interactive Python interpreter.
This class builds on InteractiveInterpreter and adds
prompting using the familiar
Convenience function to run a read-eval-print loop. This creates a
new instance of InteractiveConsole and sets readfunc
to be used as the raw_input() method, if provided. If
local is provided, it is passed to the
InteractiveConsole constructor for use as the default
namespace for the interpreter loop. The interact() method
of the instance is then run with banner passed as the banner
to use, if provided. The console object is discarded after use.
This function is useful for programs that want to emulate Python's
interpreter main loop (a.k.a. the read-eval-print loop). The tricky
part is to determine when the user has entered an incomplete command
that can be completed by entering more text (as opposed to a
complete command or a syntax error). This function
almost always makes the same decision as the real interpreter
source is the source string; filename is the optional
filename from which source was read, defaulting to
and symbol is the optional grammar start symbol, which should
'single' (the default) or
Returns a code object (the same as
filename, symbol)) if the command is complete and
None if the command is incomplete; raises
SyntaxError if the command is complete and contains a
syntax error, or raises OverflowError or
ValueError if the command contains an invalid literal.
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