[OT] code is data

[K.S.Sreeram]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> because lots of people know how to describe XML transformations, and 
> there are plenty of tools that implement such transformations efficiently ?
> 
> why would XML be inefficient ?

XML Transformations (XSLT) would *certainly* be an overkill here.
They've invented a whole new declarative programming language, and we
certainly don't need that when we've got Python! :)

XML by itself feels completely out of place in this context. What we
need is, just a flexible, easy to manipulate, in-memory tree structure
(AST) for the Python source.

Regards
Sreeram

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