[Python-ideas] Augment dis.dis to autocompile strings

[Nick Coghlan]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> I don't think using "single" makes sense here; trying "eval" can't hurt,
> though.

Agreed. Only having the two modes to worry about greatly simplifies the
code as well:

from dis import dis
def dis_str(source):
  try:
    c = compile(source, '', 'eval')
  except SyntaxError:
    c = compile(source, '', 'exec')
  return dis(c)

Cheers,
Nick.

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