running produced python code

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is there a way to get the Python engine to exec some command or script via a pipe and read the python code from that pipe as the code it will interpret? i have seen programs that read something from a file accept a '|' as the first character of a file name and treat the remaining characters as a command string and run that command to produce the contents. i have a couple cases where i would sometimes like to invoke the python command that way.

i've been thinking of adding this capability to my zopen() function. but that is not something the python engine uses.