A PYTHON PREPROCESSOR

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Thu May 18 01:52:25 EDT 2000


 
> I think the collective wisdom is "don't do this". Not because of
> whitespace issues -- these can be dealt with, with some thoughts. It's
> because it's not needed -- Python is *so* flexible right now, there's not
> much you need macros for.

The longer term effort might be to -- in conjunction with
eval, apply, and friends -- give python true metalinguistic
capability. That's quite possibly a larger bite than I can
chew at the moment, though. :)-


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