On Feb 9, 6:10 am, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guilherme Polo wrote: > > 2008/2/9, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Which library could you recommend to perform simple editing of Python > >> code (from Python program)? For example, open *.py file, find specific > >> function definition, add another function call inside, find existing > >> call and change parameter value, etc. > > You are after inspect, it is included with python. > > Yes, I forgot to mention - I'm new to Python. I didn't necessary mention > 3rd party library. Simply such wasn't mentioned in library review and > tutorials, so I didn't know of it. What's the module's name?
inspect. >> What I'm trying to implement isn't a real visual programming tool, but > >> some code-generation is necessary. For now I think I can generate Python > >> syntax manually (like any text file), but it can become more complicated > >> in future (like partially implementing code-generation library), plus > >> there'll always be possibility of corrupting files and losing data (or > >> having to recover valid Python syntax manually) due to coding mistake. > > Generating code like this is always dangerous. Maybe you could > > generate some other kind of file, then use some library or build one, > > to operator over this file. > > No, the code by itself is the goal. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
