Hi, I would like to experiment with marked-up Python source code. A more elaborate explanation of the use-case is at the end of this mail. The short story is that I would like to do things like assign colors to pieces of text in my editor and have this information saved _in my source code_ smth like <red> else : print "ERROR" return -1 </red>
"all" the Python parser has to do is skip the mark-up. Has something like this been done before? Is there a way to do this without changing the Python executable? If not, where in the source code should I start looking? cheers, Luc PS1 I know I can put the mark-up after a # and the problem is solved trivially, but this will not work for all cases (e.g. mark-up of single identifiers) and to be honest I was thinking of recycling some mark-up capable editor and an existing mark-up language PS2 here's the real use case I have a small application in Python. The code shares a recurring feature: within methods 20% of the code lines is about the actual handling of the correct case, 40% is about the handling of the incorrect cases, 40% is instrumenting (logging and timing). A case for aspect oriented programming? I would certainly think so, but unfortunately there is no obvious way to map this to the prevailing aspect-advice-joint point-point cut model. Moreover, I really do not want this code to become fragmented over multiple source code files, I just want the aspects to be readily visible in my editor, and be able to selectively show/hide some of them (like expanding/collapsing code blocks). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
