Hi,
You could try the C preprocessor. Personally, I'd just go for python's
inbult logging framework, and worry about the performance issue later.
Regards
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> We would like to have debug and release versions of our scripts. However
> since the scripts are directly used by the 'users' and they are not real
> software guys...maintaining two different scripts and then keeping them
> synchronized across 15-20 workstations etc is not something that the
> management wants.
> Scripts are complex enough that we cannot abstract out all the variables
> into config files....which might have been easier for users (just change
> parameters in a config file)
>
> *Is there a way to create a conditionally compilable Python script ?* Some
> facility that would prevent from code getting compiled into
> ".pyc"....something like the old #ifdef #endif preprocessor directives....is
> there a Python preprocessory available :)
>
> if thats doable I can ask them to make all experimental modifications
> within the conditional directives. I could still ask them to do that using
> simple if's and bool parameters, however, putting too many ifs might degrade
> the performance of these scripts. ("the lesser the branches the better it is
> for processor performance...more so for super scalar processors")
>
> We cannot use the, often unknown, __debug__ flag, because our users would
> like to simply double-click on a python file, which means to use the -O or
> -OO options (which sets __debug__ to False) we'd have to make windows python
> command line have these, and then double clicking would be of no use if you
> want the run stuff inside the __debug__.
>
> Any and every help is most welcome :)
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Vishal Sapre
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Sam's Lists <samsli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anand---
>>
>> Thanks, that worked great.
>>
>> -Sam
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Anand Chitipothu
>> <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> > text = "The Price £7"
>>> > pattern = u"£\d"
>>> >
>>> > m = re.search(pattern, text, re.UNICODE)
>>> > print m.group(0)
>>>
>>> Your text is in utf-8 encoding and pattern in unicode.
>>> Make text unicode solves the issue.
>>>
>>> text = u"The Price £7"
>>> pattern = u"£\d"
>>> m = re.search(pattern, text, re.UNICODE)
>>> print m.group(0).encode('utf-8')
>>>
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