[OT] code is data

[Fredrik Lundh]

Laurent Pointal wrote:

>>> The idea is to have a way to transform a Python (.py) module into XML
>>> and then do source code manipulations in XML-space using ElementTree.
 >>
>> My my my... I'm not against the idea of dynamic source code
>> transformation, but for heaven's sake, *why* would one put XML in the
>> mix ???????

because lots of people know how to describe XML transformations, and 
there are plenty of tools that implement such transformations efficiently ?

> Because its "à la mode", and is better for a commercial point of view,
> even if inefficient for this problem.

why would XML be inefficient ?

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