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Edit Python code programmatically

Dustan DustanGroups at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 07:34:46 EST 2008 
On Feb 9, 6:10 am, Alex <noname9... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guilherme Polo wrote:
> > 2008/2/9, Alex <noname9... at gmail.com>:
>
> >> Which library could you recommend to perform simple editing of Python
> >>  code (from Python program)? For example, open *.py file, find specific
> >>  function definition, add another function call inside, find existing
> >>  call and change parameter value, etc.
> > You are after inspect, it is included with python.
>
> Yes, I forgot to mention - I'm new to Python. I didn't necessary mention
> 3rd party library. Simply such wasn't mentioned in library review and
> tutorials, so I didn't know of it. What's the module's name?

inspect.

>> What I'm trying to implement isn't a real visual programming tool, but
> >>  some code-generation is necessary. For now I think I can generate Python
> >>  syntax manually (like any text file), but it can become more complicated
> >>  in future (like partially implementing code-generation library), plus
> >>  there'll always be possibility of corrupting files and losing data (or
> >>  having to recover valid Python syntax manually) due to coding mistake.
> > Generating code like this is always dangerous. Maybe you could
> > generate some other kind of file, then use some library or build one,
> > to operator over this file.
>
> No, the code by itself is the goal.
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