Macros in Python?

[Dominic]

> Alternatively, you can curry the above function:
> 
>     def with_root_privs(func):
>         def call(func, *args, **kwargs):
>             save_euid = os.geteuid()
>             os.seteuid(0)
>             try:
>                 func(*args, **kwargs)
>             finally:
>                 os.seteuid(save_euid)
>         return lambda *args, **kwargs: call(func, *args, **kwargs)
> 
> You can then write something like the following:
> 
>     def activate_user(x):
>         if x in user:
>             active.append(x)
>         ...
>     activate_user = with_root_privs(activate_user)
>     ...
>     activate_user(x)

Thanks. This one is also very good. :-)
Interesting idea to use a closure to build
a function wrapper.

Ciao,
  Dominic