On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Robert Kern
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...
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As an interesting (but perhaps not relevant) data point, the documentation is rather nebulous as to whether the bool cast exists (it says things like "should return true if", but never explicitly that it takes the boolean value of the return from __contains__), further it doesn't seem to be tested at all (to the point where I only noticed today that PyPy's behavior is different, since this apparently breaks no tests). Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you want" -- Me