"MonkeeSage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1.) What is the benefit of doing a two phase compilation (parsing/ | compiling), rather than a single, joint parse + compile phase (as in | interactive mode)?
As far as I know (without looking at the code), there is no difference between interactive and batch mode except that the unit processed is a statement versus file. | 2.) Wouldn't it be possible on the parsing phase to "tag" names as | valid, even if they occur prior to the assignment of the name, if on a | later branch that assignment is found (and have the compiler be aware | of such tags)? What would be the point? The semantics of Python code is essentially independent of whether it is executed in interactive or batch mode. (The exceptions are not relevant to your question.) So there is no point I can see to doing something in file mode that could not be done in statement mode. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
