On 7 Jan., 16:50, J Kenneth King <ja...@agentultra.com> wrote: > Python expressions are not > data types either and hence no macros -- I can't write a python function > that generates python code at compile time.
Have you ever considered there are languages providing macros other than Lisp? Macros have nothing to do with homoiconcity. > I can only write a python > program that parses some other string and generates code that can be run > by another interpreter. No, it is the same interpreter and it is also possible to modify python parsers on the fly. This is just not possible with Pythons builtin parser. > > Consider: > > for i in range(0, 100): > do_something_interesting(i) > > That's a pretty straight forward Python expression, but I can't do > anything with it -- it's not a unit of data, it's a string. > > The distinction is not subtle by any means. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list