On Aug 16, 3:51 am, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 15, 9:21 am, "Paul Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I'd like to be able to do the following to a python source file > > programmatically: > > * Read in a source file > > * Add/Remove/Edit Classes, methods, functions > > * Add/Remove/Edit Decorators > > * List the Classes > > * List the imported modules > > * List the functions > > * List methods of classes > > > And then save out the result back to the original file (or elsewhere). > > > I've begun by using the tokenize module to generate a token-tuple list > > and am building datastructures around it that enable the above > > methods. I'm find that I'm getting a little caught up in the details > > and thought I'd step back and ask if there's a more elegant way to > > approach this, or if anyone knows a library that could assist. > > > So far, I've got code that generates a line number to token-tuple list > > dictionary, and am working on a datastructure describing where the > > classes begin and end, indexed by their name, such that they can be > > later modified. > > Look at the 2to3 tool which is good at this sort of thing. It lets you > define custom "fixers" that work on a fairly high-level representation > of the parse tree and then write the source back exactly unchanged. > > > > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Paul > >
Thanks for the hint. I've looked at lib2to3 and there might be some useful stuff in there! Thank you, Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
