passing an expression

[Skaperen]

It 'has been stated' that eval is bad news

I refer you to: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201206/ev...erous.html

There are others who disagree.

right.

this is one of the reasons i want to avoid passing a string to eval(). fortunately, i am only needing to evaluate expressions in my code. there are no untrusted sources in this.

in a language i once created, it was possible to manipulate compiled code in a way that allowed passing the code to a function which could manipulate it further (pass it to another function) and/or evaluate/execute it perhaps more than once (using local values that can be changed). i'm just looking for a way to do something like this in Python.