Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> writes: > On Jan 7, 9:16 am, "Chris Mellon" <arka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The OP wants a Ruby-style DSL by which he means "something that lets >> me write words instead of expressions". The ruby syntax is amenable to >> this, python (and lisp, for that matter) syntax is not and you can't >> implement that style of internal DSL in those languages. >> >> The answer to the OP is "you can't - use Ruby or modify your requirements". >> > > As far as putting the code into Python, yeah, you can't put it in > Python. The best you can do is store it in a string and then interpret > the string with some function later on.
That's what I'm saying. It seems we're defining "DSL" in two different ways. You can't write a DSL in Python because you can't change the syntax and you don't have macros. You can write a compiler in Python that will compile your "DSL." As another poster mentioned, eventually PyPy will be done and then you'll get more of an "in-Python" DSL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list