Recursion in compile()

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Narendra C. Tulpule:
  [...]
> I was trying something like 
> cobj = compile('eval(src_code)', ...)
> eval(cobj)
> And that complains about syntax error (because I am trying to define a
> function within eval string?)

That would do it -- with a string argument, eval only does
expressions, not statements (and so in particular, not def
statements).

Try
    compile('exec src_code')
instead.

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