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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:46:22 +0100
Subject: Re: How to do a Lispy-esque read?
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
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On 8 April 2013 08:45,  <zeta.convex@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose I want to read an object from some stream. How do I do it?
>
> For example, if the input stream contained the text:
> [1, # python should ignore this comment
> 2]
>
> and I do a "read" on it, I should obtain the result
> [1, 2]

You might be interested in code.compile_command()
(http://docs.python.org/2/library/code.html)

-- 
Arnaud