On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 5:02 PM Marco Sulla <Marco.Sulla.Python@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 11:17, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Did you have a specific question to be answered or are you just hoping
> to get people interested in the proposal?

It seems I have to repost the proposal I already wrote...

My proposal is to add a way for third party modules to add custom
keywords.

You can already do something like this, using either an import hook or a custom encoding.
Perhaps I should repost a link that I already included in an earlier, but rather terse, reply  on this thread, about the specific "constant" example.


You will find various examples of adding custom keywords.

(more below)

 
Example:

from mykeywords import @const
@const a = 1

Notice that I choose "@" but I hope another non c-alphanumeric
character will be chosen.

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 12:46, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> A proposal that requires syntactic changes [...]

No syntactic changes are needed. Custom keywords *must* be prefixed
with a non-alphanumeric character (@ for example).

Syntactic changes would be needed.  The way that your example would be normally processed by Python
is as follows:
First, the entire content of the file would be read, and broken up into tokens (individual words and symbols).
Next, these tokens would be interpreted according to Python's grammar: your notation would raise a SyntaxError.
This would stop the entire process.

To actually do the import "from mykeywords import ...", one needs to go beyond the parsing stage.
This is where a custom encoding or an import hook can help, by transforming the source into valid Python code
before it is parsed.  More information available at the link given above.

André Roberge

 


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