Python compile() Function

Compile(): Consider a situation where we have a piece of Python code in a string and we want to compile it so that we can later run it when needed. The compile method does this task. It takes sourcecode as input and returns a code object which is ready to be executed.

Syntax:

compile(source, filename, mode, flags=0, dont_inherit=False, optimize=-1)

Parameters:

Source – It can be a normal string, a byte string, or an AST object

Filename -This is the file from which the code was read. If it wasn’t read from a file, you can give a name yourself.

Mode – Mode can be exec, eval or single.
a. eval – If the sorce is a single expression.
b. exec – It can take a block of a code that has Python statements, class and functions and so on.
c. single – It is used if consists of a single interactive statement

Flags (optional) and dont_inherit (optional) – Default value=0. It takes care that which future statements affect the compilation of the source.
Optimize (optional) – It tells optimization level of compiler. Default value -1.

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# Python code to demonstrate working of compile().
  
# Creating sample sourcecode to multiply two variables
# x and y.
srcCode = 'x = 10\ny = 20\nmul = x * y\nprint("mul =", mul)'
  
# Converting above source code to an executable
execCode = compile(srcCode, 'mulstring', 'exec')
  
# Running the executable code.
exec(execCode)

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mul = 200














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# Another Python code to demonstrate working of compile(). 


x = 50


  


# Note eval is used for single statement 


a = compile('x', 'test', 'single') 


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Output:


50





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  1. If the Python code is in string form or is an AST object, and you want to change it to a code object, then you can use compile() method.
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  2. The code object returned by the compile() method can later be called using methods like: exec() and eval() which will execute dynamically generated Python code.
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