macro in python

[Terry Reedy]

"Guilherme Polo" <ggpolo at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| 2008/2/27, bharath venkatesh <bharathv6 at gmail.com>:

| >     how to create macro in python for set of instruction that is done
| > frequently but too less in number to ignore the overhead of function 
call

You can't in Python.  Use an external macro program or cut/repeated paste 
in an editor.

| There is lambda, not exactly a macro.

Not at all a macro.  Purely an abbreviation for def ...

| But every program uses functions why cant yours ?

Yes, function call overhead is seldom the major slowdown except possibly in 
inner loops, where code can be written inline just once.

tjr