Chad Crabtree wrote:
I'm trying to make a macro system that's work by just doing this
import macro # [...]
Perhaps you could turn things around, and make your macro preprocessor into an import hook? I.E., you'd use it like --
import macro
module = macro.import("module_with_macros"[, macro_list])
module.do_stuff()Not sure if you'd need to have a list of macros in the module to be imported, or not. Perhaps the macro module would hold a list of currently active macros, instead...
In any case, this (I think) gives you a chance to interrupt the import process and modify the target module before the Python parser gets it, which should enable you to avoid the SyntaxError problems.
(Of course, I've never messed around with hooking __import__(), so I could just be talking out of my ...)
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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