[Python-Dev] A Hygienic Macro System in Python?

[Michael Hudson]

David Ascher <DavidA@ActiveState.com> writes:

> My vote on the notion is that I want to know what good macros people
> would write, and then implement them in a non-macro fashion.

My favourite example of this is distutils.core.setup() 

1) looks declarative
2) isn't

Very Pythonic, IMHO.

Cheers,
M.

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