On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:38:15 -0700 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
I've occasionally wished that we could repurpose backticks for expression literals:
expr = `x + y*z` assert isinstance(expr, ast.Expression)
Maybe you could just as well make it a plain string literal and call a function that parses it into a parse tree:
expr = parse("x + y*z") assert isinstance(expr, ast.Expression)
The advantage of this approach is that you can define a different language too...
Starting with string literals and a parse function seems like a great design decision. It already works and doesn't require new syntax.
Yes, you only have to write a dedicated full-fledged parser, your code isn't highlighted properly in text editors, and you can't easily access Python objects declared in the enclosing scope. I guess it explains that none of the common ORMs seem to have adopted such a “great design decision” :-) Regards Antoine.