Easy(?) newbie question

[Gerhard =?unknown-8bit?Q?H=E4ring?=]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:16:38PM +0000, Erik Johnson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     I am just getting savvy to Python - rather excited about the
> possibilities, but I have come across something that seems rather simple
> but I'm stumped...
> 
> The following loop does what I would expect:
> 
> >>> for x in range(10): print x,
> ...
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> 
> but when I try to put this code into a string and evaluate it, I get a
> syntax error:
> 
> >>> s = "for x in range(10): print x,"
> >>> s
> 'for x in range(10): print x,'
> >>> eval(s)

eval() evaluates expressions, exec() executes statements. More about what is an
expression/a statement can be found in the Python documentation.

Also, the Python interactive prompt does both execute and evaluate, depending
on what you feed it.

Gerhard
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