Python Macros

[Arich Chanachai]

Josiah Carlson wrote:

>>How hard/easy is it to extend the Python syntax?  Perhaps there are 
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>Check out the tokenizer module.
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Is this easy to use?  Are there good tutorials?

>>macro facilities for this?
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>Python has no macro facilities.
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Really?  I read that Python was just like Scheme in that it had macro 
facilities.

>>I'd like to add messages and message 
>>passing, for example.
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>Macros are not necessary for message passing.  There are at least a
>dozen message passing libraries for inter and intra-machine
>communications, including versions that work with DCOM, Corba, MPI, and
>I'm sure just about anything else you could want to do.
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>Heck, writing message passing with TCP sockets is even quite easy, if
>you have experience with writing network protocols.
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>If you are just wanting to pass messages in your program, and you are
>using threads, use the Queue module (in 2.4 it will be faster).
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> - Josiah
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Great, thanks.