### Code Objects

Code objects are used by the implementation to represent ``pseudo-compiled'' executable Python code such as a function body. They differ from function objects because they don't contain a reference to their global execution environment. Code objects are returned by the built-in `compile()` function and can be extracted from function objects through their `func_code` attribute.

A code object can be executed or evaluated by passing it (instead of a source string) to the `exec` statement or the built-in `eval()` function.

(See the Python Reference Manual for more info.)