👉 In programming, a "pre-executing" operation is an operation that occurs before the actual execution of code. This can include various types of operations such as function calls, file I/O operations, and memory allocation. For example, if you were writing a program that reads data from a file, pre-executing operations could be: ```python with open('filename.txt', 'r') as f: contents = f.read() ``` This would read the contents of the specified file into