On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> In short, as of this moment, it appears that '~' should be handled
>> uniformly and properly in all file names. Please let me know if you
>> find problems.
>
> The success of g.os_path_finalize_path/_join suggests that now might
> be a good time to support general python expressions in file names.
> My present thinking:
>
> 1. Delimit such expression by {{exp}} For example:
>
> @thin {{something}}/spam.py
>
> I wonder, however, whether there are any practical uses for this
> feature. Can anyone provide such an example that is not equivalent to
> an ordinary path expression like
>
> @thin ./../test/test.leo
@shadow {{os.environ["PROJECT_ROOT"]}}/src/project.py
>
> Important: at present, or very shortly, the following conventions will
> apply throughout Leo:
>
> ! denotes g.app.loadDir, that is, leo/core
> . denotes c.openDirectory, the directory containing the .leo file for c.
> ~ denotes the users home directory.
>
> So the question is, is there any other place that a) would be useful
> and b) could be reasonably denoted by {{something}} If not, I shall
> not implement this feature.
>
> 2. Assuming that somebody can provide an example where {{something}}
> actually would be useful, the question is, in what environment should
> {{something}} be executed. My first thought, is an environment in
> which sys, os, c, g, and p have their normal meanings. In other
> words, I am thinking that 'something' is an expression, not a list of
> statements, so that imports are not available.
>
> 3. I'll change g.os_path finalize to c.path_finalize and similarly for
> g.os_path_finalize_join. This will make c available to these methods.
> It remains to be seen whether c is available in all places where
> g.os_path_finalize is presently called, but that's most a nit.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Edward
>
> >
>
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