Question

I am using a 3rd party application’s Python integration where Python code is stored internally in binary files. So I want to separate the code from it. I could create a module but the code I need to include doesn’t function on its own, as it includes locals only valid in that context, etc.

I am basically looking for a copy-paste solution at compile-time.

Is there any way to do this in Python?

Answer 1

Yes, it’s called exec.

Your code would look like this: exec your_code_str. The code is then executed in the current scope.

You could also specify a different scope: exec your_code_str in globals(), locals() (those values are the default, so only specify them if they differ)

Note that you can also pass a file object, so if the python code is only a single blob of text right at the end of the binary file you can just seek to the beginning of the code and then pass the file object.