On Mar 2, 8:33 am, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > And how important is it to make sure that whatever data your program > processes doesn't overwrite the actual variable names you want to use to > program the processing?
Oh, I see what you're saying. You're thinking I was going to machine- process the C header file and pattern-match the #define statements? Actually, I was just hand-copying the values, and was looking for a way to reduce typing. But, I suppose if I were to machine-process the header files, that would be a concern. I suppose in that case I would make sure I only inserted variables which matched a particular pattern (ie, "[A-Z]+_[A- Z][A-Z0-9]+"). In fact, now that you got me thinking in that direction... Somewhat sadly, in my case, I can't even machine process the header file. I don't, strictly speaking, have a header file. What I have is a PDF which documents what's in the header file, and I'm manually re- typing the data out of that. Sigh. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
