Python: How to use code.InteractiveConsole?
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I'm trying to use InteractiveConsole
to create a new front-end for a Python interpreter. These code fragments are from me playing around with InteractiveConsole
in IDLE:
>>> ses = code.InteractiveConsole()
>>> ses.runsource("def foo():")
True
>>> ses.runsource(" return 2")
File "<input>", line 1
SyntaxError: 'return' outside function (<input>, line 1)
False
Why does it raise a syntax error? How else can I finish writing the function?
Also, for something like this:
>>> ses.runsource("x = 1")
False
>>> ses.runsource("x")
1
False
How can I capture the 1
value from above? False
is the return value, but 1
is written to some stream.
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