I am looking for code to check if a string representing a function header of a function is syntactically correct.
Here is my string example:
'''+'def __init__(self,{arg})'.format(arg = ','.join(i for i in someListOranArgPassedIn), )+''':
If this function was defined as
def __init__(self,,...a,,//b):
and goes against syntactic rules, what can I add to raise an exception?
Using the function from here.
import ast
def is_valid_python(code):
try:
ast.parse(code)
except SyntaxError:
return False
return True
test_args = lambda args: "def init(self, {arg}):\n\tpass".format(arg = ",".join(args))
print is_valid_python(test_args(["a", "b"]))
print is_valid_python(test_args(["", "...a", "", "//b"]))
return. I suggest you use compile instead of ast.parse.
return be a parameter in a function?is_valid_python("return") gives True; it should give False. Doing a full compile with compile catches this.