"Ilias Lazaridis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you ask too much that other people do your searching for you, answers will dry up. But here are a couple that you might not find on google anyway, at least not easily. > I want to add metadata to everything within my design (functions, data, > classes, ...), if possible with a standard way. You can annotate, by adding attributes to, modules, functions, classes, and class instances. You can not directly do so with 'basic' types: numbers, sequences, and dicts -- and some others. You can, however, either extend or wrap anything with your own classes to get something you can annotate (but don't ask me for the details). > I want to generate things (code, txt, html etc.) out of my object-model, > whilst using with a flexible generator, if possible a standard one. One standard way to generate text from objects is to use custom classes, each with a custom __str__ method. Assuming you have a hierachical model without loops, each such method can recursively call each data attribute object of the instancefor it to generate its substring. (With loops you need a loop-cutting mechanism to prevent infinite recursion.) I know this has been done for html (but again, I won't google for you). Define a class for each type of element and give each instance a list of element instances it contains. Then 'print html_doc_instance' can print the html doc corresponding to the object model. Like others, I recommend you spend a day with Python if you wish to learn more. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
