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- <span id="top-level"></span><h1><span class="section-number">9. </span>Top-level components<a class="headerlink" href="#top-level-components" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
- <p id="index-0">The Python interpreter can get its input from a number of sources: from a script
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- <span id="programs"></span><h2><span class="section-number">9.1. </span>Complete Python programs<a class="headerlink" href="#complete-python-programs" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p id="index-2"><span id="index-1"></span>While a language specification need not prescribe how the language interpreter
- is invoked, it is useful to have a notion of a complete Python program. A
- complete Python program is executed in a minimally initialized environment: all
- built-in and standard modules are available, but none have been initialized,
- except for <a class="reference internal" href="../library/sys.html#module-sys" title="sys: Access system-specific parameters and functions."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys</span></code></a> (various system services), <a class="reference internal" href="../library/builtins.html#module-builtins" title="builtins: The module that provides the built-in namespace."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">builtins</span></code></a> (built-in
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- provide the local and global namespace for execution of the complete program.</p>
- <p>The syntax for a complete Python program is that for file input, described in
- the next section.</p>
- <p id="index-3">The interpreter may also be invoked in interactive mode; in this case, it does
- not read and execute a complete program but reads and executes one statement
- (possibly compound) at a time. The initial environment is identical to that of
- a complete program; each statement is executed in the namespace of
- <a class="reference internal" href="../library/__main__.html#module-__main__" title="__main__: The environment where top-level code is run. Covers command-line interfaces, import-time behavior, and ``__name__ == '__main__'``."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__main__</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p id="index-4">A complete program can be passed to the interpreter
- in three forms: with the <a class="reference internal" href="../using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-c"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-c</span></code></a> <em>string</em> command line option, as a file
- passed as the first command line argument, or as standard input. If the file
- or standard input is a tty device, the interpreter enters interactive mode;
- otherwise, it executes the file as a complete program.</p>
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- <section id="file-input">
- <span id="id1"></span><h2><span class="section-number">9.2. </span>File input<a class="headerlink" href="#file-input" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>All input read from non-interactive files has the same form:</p>
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- <strong id="grammar-token-python-grammar-file_input">file_input</strong> ::= (NEWLINE | <a class="reference internal" href="compound_stmts.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-statement"><code class="xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">statement</span></code></a>)*
- </pre>
- <p>This syntax is used in the following situations:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p>when parsing a complete Python program (from a file or from a string);</p></li>
- <li><p>when parsing a module;</p></li>
- <li><p>when parsing a string passed to the <a class="reference internal" href="../library/functions.html#exec" title="exec"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">exec()</span></code></a> function;</p></li>
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- <span id="interactive"></span><h2><span class="section-number">9.3. </span>Interactive input<a class="headerlink" href="#interactive-input" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>Input in interactive mode is parsed using the following grammar:</p>
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- <strong id="grammar-token-python-grammar-interactive_input">interactive_input</strong> ::= [<a class="reference internal" href="compound_stmts.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-stmt_list"><code class="xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">stmt_list</span></code></a>] NEWLINE | <a class="reference internal" href="compound_stmts.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-compound_stmt"><code class="xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">compound_stmt</span></code></a> NEWLINE
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- <p>Note that a (top-level) compound statement must be followed by a blank line in
- interactive mode; this is needed to help the parser detect the end of the input.</p>
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- <section id="expression-input">
- <span id="id2"></span><h2><span class="section-number">9.4. </span>Expression input<a class="headerlink" href="#expression-input" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p id="index-6"><span id="index-5"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../library/functions.html#eval" title="eval"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">eval()</span></code></a> is used for expression input. It ignores leading whitespace. The
- string argument to <a class="reference internal" href="../library/functions.html#eval" title="eval"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">eval()</span></code></a> must have the following form:</p>
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- <strong id="grammar-token-python-grammar-eval_input">eval_input</strong> ::= <a class="reference internal" href="expressions.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-expression_list"><code class="xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">expression_list</span></code></a> NEWLINE*
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