How do you compile an ast.Expr?

Question

import ast
code = '1+1'
expr = ast.parse(code).body[0]
print(type(expr))
compile(ast.Expression(expr), 'string', "eval")

gets me

class '_ast.Expr'
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "test_ast.py", line 6, in <module>
 compile(ast.Expression(expr), '<string>', "eval")
TypeError: expected some sort of expr, but got <_ast.Expr object at> 0x7fe89442d9e8>

compile(expr, '<string>', "eval")

does not works either:

TypeError: expected Expression node, got Expr

Answer 1

TLDR: replace expr by ast.Expression(expr.value)

A comment on this Convert ast node into python object and makeMonday's answer gave me the solution:

import ast
code = 'a+1'
expr = ast.parse(code).body[0]
print(eval(compile(ast.Expression(expr.value), '<string>', "eval"), {"a": 4}, {}))

Answer 2

An interesting explanation about Expressions can be found here.

But basically, the answer's first paragraph says it all:

Expr is not the node for an expression per se but rather an expression-statement --- that is, a statement consisting of only an expression. This is not totally obvious because the abstract grammar uses three different identifiers Expr, Expression, and expr, all meaning slightly different things.

So, in your case, you would need to dump the Expr first:

>>> ast.dump(expr)
'Expr(value=BinOp(left=Num(n=1), op=Add(), right=Num(n=1)))'
>>> compile(ast.dump(expr), 'string', "eval")
<code object <module> at 0x1065d2ae0, file "string", line 1>