On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Christian Heimes] >> >> The idea sounds great! >> >> Are you planing to embed the pure python code in C code? > > Am experimenting with a descriptor that fetches the attribute string from a > separate text file.
Have you ever considered the same approach for docstrings in C code? As reference, NumPy already has some trickery for maintaining docstrings outside C sources. Of course, descriptors would be a far better for implementing and support this in core Python and other projects... > This keeps the C build from getting fat. More > importantly, it let's us write the execable string in a more natural way (it > bites to write C style docstrings using \n and trailing backslashes). The > best part is that people without C compilers can still submit patches to the > text files. > > > Raymond > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dalcinl%40gmail.com > -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com