Is this possible in Python?

Paul Rubin http
Mon Mar 13 03:37:25 EST 2006


alainpoint at yahoo.fr writes:
> assert magic_function(3+4)=="3+4"
> assert magic_function([i for i in range(10)])=="i for i in range(10)]"
> 
> It is not trivial at all and might require some bytecode hacking that i
> am unable to do myself BUT you are the experts ;-)

Guhhh... you'd want to use the traceback system and reach back into
the source code to get and parse the statement that called the magic
function, sort of like a debugger does.  I don't think messing with
the bytecode would help.



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