Implementing #define macros similar to C on python

[Irmen de Jong]

On 15-11-2013 3:29, JL wrote:
> One of my favorite tools in C/C++ language is the preprocessor macros.
> 
> One example is switching certain print messages for debugging use only
> 
> #ifdef DEBUG_ENABLE
> DEBUG_PRINT   print
> #else
> DEBUG_PRINT
> 
> Is it possible to implement something similar in python? Thank you.
> 

You could just run cpp (or gcc -E) on your python-with-macros-file to generate the final
.py file. But: yuck, eww, gross.

Irmen