On Jun 21, 7:52 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eliben wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2:44 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> eliben wrote: > >> > Additionally, I've found indentation to be a problem in such > >> > constructs. Is there a workable way to indent the code at the level of > >> > build_func, and not on column 0 ? > > >> exec"if 1:" + code.rstrip() > > >> Peter > > > Why is the 'if' needed here ? I had .strip work for me: > > A simple .strip() doesn't work if the code comprises multiple lines: > > >>> def f(): > > ... return """ > ... x = 42 > ... if x > 0: > ... print x > ... """ > ...>>> exec "if 1:\n" + f().rstrip() > 42 > >>> exec f().strip() > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "<string>", line 2 > if x > 0: > ^ > IndentationError: unexpected indent > > You can of course split the code into lines, calculate the indentation of > the first non-white line, remove that indentation from all lines and then > rejoin. >
textwrap.dedent will do all that for you... Michael Foord http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ > Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
