Building a Python Interpreter inside ChatGPT

You don’t need an interpreter anymore

This story is inspired by a similar story, Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT. I was impressed and decided to try something similar, but this time instead of a Linux command line tool, let’s ask ChatGPT to be our Python interpreter.

Here is an initial command to initialize ChatGPT:

I want you to act as a Python interpreter. I will type commands and you will reply with what the
python output should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique
code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations, output only what python outputs. Do not type commands unless I
instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting
text inside curly brackets like this: {example text}. My first command is a=1.

Seems to work great; let’s try some simple arithmetical expressions.

Worked again; what will happen if we use a library that wasn’t imported?

Well, it decided to help me out to solve an error. I actually don’t want it to do this, so I will ask him once again not to output anything except python code.

{Print only python output, do not print any comments}

Just for the record, ChatGPT sometime is able to use libraries that weren’t imported, but this time I was lucky, and it prints an error message.

Ok, I am pretty sure ChatGPT is capable of simple tasks, let’s try something more complex, let it output the result of a binary search algorithm.

# Binary Search in python


def binarySearch(array, x, low, high):

    # Repeat until the pointers low and high meet each other
    while low <= high:

        mid =…