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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: Question about math.pi is mutable
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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>:

> Since compile, eval and exec are Python built-ins, if it doesn't
> include a byte-code compiler, it isn't Python. It's just a subset of
> Python.

compile() can be implemented trivially, or in any other manner. It
simply needs to return a "code object." I suspect even a string might
work as a code object.


Marko