Add a method to run script from a buffer

[mathbagu]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently there are two ways to evaluate a script:

• use runScript if the script is stored in a file
• use eval to evaluate statement one by one (interactive mode)
• read the content to a buffer (String) and use eval

Describe the solution you'd like It could be nice to have a function that evaluate a script from an InputStream. The implementation is not really easy to write, because I have to skip the empty lines properly, the commented lines... and buffer statements that have to be evaluate as once.

Describe alternatives you've considered I try to write a Java loop that call eval for each statement, but:

• lines that begins by # has to be ignored (why not by the JEP implementation?)
• empty lines could be either an end of statement or to continue indentation

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[bsteffensmeier]

Jep v3.9 added the exec method to the interpreters. Exec allows executing multiple python statements without the limitations of eval, which is only intended for executing a single statement.

[ndjensen]

@mathbagu, did exec work for you? I'm not sure how we could implement what you want in Jep without reading the entire InputStream.

[bsteffensmeier]

I am closing this as inactive. I believe the exec method solves the problems with needing to sanitize input and there are numerous utility methods in java for reading files and streams into a String that can be used by the exec method