Teaching Programming

[superpollo]

Stefan Behnel ha scritto:
> superpollo, 04.05.2010 13:56:
>> Stefan Behnel ha scritto:
>>> The question is: why do you have to generate the above code in the
>>> first place? Isn't a function enough that does the above?
>>
>> of course! *but* if i must generate on-the-fly python code that defines
>> a function  [...]
> 
> Well, could you provide a use case where you have to generate Python 
> code, and where normally written code with some kind of parametrisation 
> won't work?

i see your point, and mr mills gave me hints as to how to attack some of 
my problems in such a fashion.

> The only thing that currently comes to my mind is a template compiler 
> that translates a user provided template into an executable Python 
> program. But that should be pretty trivial to do as well. I just 
> remembered this little thing on Fredrik's effbot site, which should help 
> here:
> 
> http://effbot.org/zone/python-code-generator.htm

very good. i will most certainly give it a try.

but i do not think i can use it myself, since my template system wants 
the input to generate the code to stay on a single line ( don't ask :-( )

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