Guilherme Polo wrote:
> 2008/2/9, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Guilherme Polo wrote:
>> > 2008/2/9, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >
>> >> On Feb 9, 12:32 pm, "Guilherme Polo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> > 2008/2/9, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >> >
>> >> > > 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 is a module, inspect is the name. It is not a module for
>> >>>
>> >> > editing Python code per se, but it will help with the other part.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I don't think the OP wants to edit python code *objects*, rather he
>> >> wants to edit python *source* code programmatically. Inspect is not
>> >> the tool for this.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I didn't tell him to use inspect to edit python code, I said it was
>> > useful for the other part. The other part, as he mentioned on his
>> > email is: "find specific
>> > function definition, add another function call inside, find existing
>> > call".
>>
>> Sorry but I said "in *.py file", meaning that file isn't executed to
>> edit objects in memory. It's instead saved in modified form, possibly to
>> be edited by user. Guess it's a common task for visual GUI editors and
>> any visual programming tools.
>>
>>
>
> By visual GUI editors I will assume GUI designer tools. These tend to
> not generate direct python code, glade-2 used to but glade-3 doesn't
> anymore. Other tools like XRCed generates xrc, wxGlade has an option
> to generate .xrc too, Qt Designer generates .ui and .qrc, Glade-3
> generates .glade file, Gazpacho generates .glade, or a gazpacho format
> or gtkbuilder format. In all these, it is recommended to use something
> to work with the generated code, like libglade, wx.xrc and PyQt has
> tools to convert .ui and .qrc to python modules but they don't affect
> your custom code (it is also possible to load .ui using uic module).
>
> With this we come back to my first email, where I told you it is not
> recommended to generate direct python code, especially if you are
> doing the kind of things you just mentioned. If you still want to
> generate python code, from some other source, inspect can be helpful.
Thank you for detailed reply... but I still want to generate python
code. By the way, Python Package Index references code generators able
to generate Python code
(http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=409), which I'll
inspect later (especially their ability to *edit* code). Inspect might
be useful too.
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