[Python-Dev] #pragmas in Python source code

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Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>   And XML was exactly why I asked about *programming* languages.  XML
> just doesn't qualify in any way I can think of as a language.

I'm harumphing right along with you, Fred.  :)

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> oh, come on.  in what way is "Python source code" more
> expressive than XML, if you don't have anything that inter-
> prets it?  does the Python parser create "better" trees than
> an XML parser?

Python isn't just a parse tree.  It has semantics.

XML has no semantics.  It's content-free content.  :)

> but back to the real issue -- the point is that XML provides a
> mechanism for going from an external representation to an in-
> ternal (unicode) token stream, and that mechanism is good
> enough for python source code.

You have a point.  I'll go look at what they do.


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