On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:09 PM André Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:43 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > SNIP >> >> >> > If we had some sort of easy to use standard library support for >> > transpiling code, then your advice could actually be practical and not >> > just dismissive. "Pft, if you don't like it, write your own language" is >> > not exactly practical for most people. Even if a transpiler is a tad >> > simpler than writing an entire interpreter or compiler, it's still a new >> > language. >> >> ... would be best done with stdlib support, yes. I think import hooks >> can do everything that's needed, but I've never actually done it. >> Normally I'd just use a simple source-to-source transformation before >> execution, and usually I do things that aren't ever going to show up >> (string literals aside), so I don't need it to be very smart. > > > Already done (with a different keyword): > > https://aroberge.github.io/ideas/docs/html/nobreak.html >
Thank you. Especially since the source code is extremely short: https://github.com/aroberge/ideas/blob/master/ideas/examples/nobreak.py I'd like to see this 'ideas' module (or similar) better known. It'd help a lot with complaints like Steven's. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/CVCNTLEZPZRYXAHSYQAHCE3ZNXW6HUNP/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
