On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lizhi Yang wrote:
>
>> Is there anything similar to ifdef statement in C or C++ in python?
>>
>
> Not really, but python's regular if can be used for a similar purpose:
>
> DEBUG = True
>
> if DEBUG:
> import logging
> def foo():
> # debug version
> else:
> def foo():
> # normal version
>
> def main():
> foo()
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> main()
>
> or something like that.
Really a try/except block would actually work
def spam1():
pass
try:
spam2
except NameError:
def spam2():
pass
Because if DEBUG isn't declared you'll throw a NameError
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