"Guilherme Polo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2008/2/27, bharath venkatesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| > how to create macro in python for set of instruction that is done | > frequently but too less in number to ignore the overhead of function call You can't in Python. Use an external macro program or cut/repeated paste in an editor. | There is lambda, not exactly a macro. Not at all a macro. Purely an abbreviation for def ... | But every program uses functions why cant yours ? Yes, function call overhead is seldom the major slowdown except possibly in inner loops, where code can be written inline just once. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list