Python equivalent of #line?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Thomas Guettler:
  [...]
> I think automatically creating python code is a bad idea. I once had
> to deal with an old project which stored data in the syntax of a
> programming language. It is hell. Data should be in a format suitable
> for data.

Code generation makes sense in some situations; Knuth's "literate
programming" methodology comes to mind.  (And having line numbers
refer to the original source makes good sense there.)

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Steven Taschuk                            staschuk at telusplanet.net
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