Name
The exec Statement
Synopsis
execcodestring
[inglobaldict
[,localdict
]]
Compiles and runs code strings. codestring
is any Python statement as a string; run in namespace containing the
exec
, or the global/local namespace dictionaries
if specified (localdict
defaults to
globaldict
).
codestring
can also be a compiled code
object. Also see compile
, eval
,
and execfile
in Section 1.12.
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