Test a Python function within Python without importing

[Peter Hansen]

Marco Aschwanden wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:06:42 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch 
> <deetsNOSPAM at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> use exec on the compiled object - the details are in the docs.
> 
> I did it... but exec() does not return a value - or does it?

And note, though you probably discovered this already, that
exec is a statement, not a function.  Don't use the parentheses,
and you won't expect a return value... (as with print, for example).