eval=FALSE does not seem to work for the python engine

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In my Rmd document, I'm including some python code, but since it takes forever to run, Id like to not evaluate it. I set the eval=FALSE tag, but when I knit the document, it still attempts to run it. any ideas?


[3 backticks]{python eval=FALSE, engine.path='/usr/local/bin/python3'}

from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
import requests
import smtplib
import os
import sys
import os.path
import re
import pandas as pd
import feather

STATUS_OK = 0
STATUS_ERROR = -1
FILENAME_LASTSTATUS = os.path.join(sys.path[0], "LAST_STATUS_{0}.txt")
mynum = 1890048782 # THis is my case number

def poll_optstatus(casenumber):
    """
    poll USCIS case status given receipt number (casenumber)
    Args:
        param1: casenumber the case receipt number
    Returns:
        a tuple (status, details) containing status and detailed info
    Raise:
        error:
    """
    headers = {
        'Accept': 'text/html, application/xhtml+xml, image/jxr, */*',
        'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
        'Accept-Language':
        'en-US, en; q=0.8, zh-Hans-CN; q=0.5, zh-Hans; q=0.3',
        'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
        'Connection': 'Keep-Alive',
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Host': 'egov.uscis.gov',
        'Referer': 'https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/mycasestatus.do',
        'User-Agent':
        'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10586'
    }
    url = "https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/mycasestatus.do"
    data = {"appReceiptNum": casenumber, 'caseStatusSearchBtn': 'CHECK+STATUS'}

    res = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)
    doc = pq(res.text)
    status = doc('h1').text()
    code = STATUS_OK if status else STATUS_ERROR
    details = doc('.text-center p').text()
    return (code, status, details)

# Get every 10th case status
case_nums = ['YSC' + str(i) for i in range(1890038932, 1890079632)]
vals = [poll_optstatus(case) for case in case_nums]

df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(vals)
df['case'] = case_nums

feather.write_dataframe(df, "uscis.feather")
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I think the issue is that I had both eval = FALSE and i added an engine.path. when I remove the engine path, it seems to work fine.