Edit Python code programmatically

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/2/9, Alex <noname9968 at gmail.com>:
> Which library could you recommend to perform simple editing of Python
>  code (from Python program)? For example, open *.py file, find specific
>  function definition, add another function call inside, find existing
>  call and change parameter value, etc.
>

You are after inspect, it is included with python.

>  What I'm trying to implement isn't a real visual programming tool, but
>  some code-generation is necessary. For now I think I can generate Python
>  syntax manually (like any text file), but it can become more complicated
>  in future (like partially implementing code-generation library), plus
>  there'll always be possibility of corrupting files and losing data (or
>  having to recover valid Python syntax manually) due to coding mistake.
>

Generating code like this is always dangerous. Maybe you could
generate some other kind of file, then use some library or build one,
to operator over this file.

>  Thanks
>
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