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What does eval function do in python?

26th Dec 2018, 11:57 AM
shreyash joshi
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it returns eval("2*3*4")
26th Dec 2018, 12:17 PM
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It does something similar to what interpreter do. It executes the given statement inside the method.
26th Dec 2018, 12:46 PM
Seniru
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shreyash joshi in your code e variable is the string type .you can check it by like print(e) or print(type(e)) and eval just executing it.go line by line you can easily understand it.
26th Dec 2018, 4:11 PM
Maninder $ingh
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evaluate what is the result of the string
26th Dec 2018, 12:02 PM
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"3+3" -> 6
26th Dec 2018, 12:02 PM
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Then what does this code do? def f(r): j=range(r) e=eval("*".join([str(i+2)for i in j])) return e print(f(3))
26th Dec 2018, 12:10 PM
shreyash joshi
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deserialize ur code
27th Dec 2018, 5:44 PM
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