On 4 Aug, 16:50, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wilson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I have an interesting problem that I'm hoping can be solved with > > metaprogramming, but I don't know how far Python supports code > > generation (and I don't know if I'm taking the correct approach > > either... hence why I'm asking on this group): > > > I'd like to write a program that writes/manipulates a statemachine. My > > idea was that I would define states in a .py file along with their > > transitions and other metadata. > > You're probably better off coming up with a representation for a > state machine (which might be a pickled collection of Python objects) > then providing a "compile" operation which cranks out a .py file > with code to implement the state machine. > > John Nagle
I agree. I guess my 'representation' is the big question! Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
