On 12 January 2017 at 15:34, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-01-12 13:13 GMT+01:00 Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com>: >> Something like: >> from __syntax__ import decimal_literal > > IMHO you can already implement that with a third party library, see for > example: > https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy > > It also reminds me my PEP 511 which would open the gate for any kind > of Python preprocessor :-) > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0511/
PEP 302 (import hooks) pretty much did that years ago :-) Just write your own processor to translate a new filetype into bytecode, and register it as an import hook. There was a web framework that did that for templates not long after PEP 302 got implemented (can't recall the name any more). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
