[Tutor] Anyway to do something like a #define in python?
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld@blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jul 25 03:16:02 2003
> Is there a python equivalent to the C #define?
Thankfully no, Python has removed the need for such a
dangerous and ill behaved construct. As indeed has C++
where the use of #define (and most other pre-processor
directives) is deprecated(*).
Now what exactly were you thinking of doing with #define?
Then we might be able to tell you how to do it safely
in Python :-)
Alan G
(*)If you want to see why #define is evil read the relevant
chapter in Bjarne Stroustrup's excellent book "The Design
& Evolution of C++"