Re: repo to work on python scripting support

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-25T18:30:31Z

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:18:12AM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I don't know the most Pythonish way of doing things, but it seems to
> me that Python could register not functions, but objects, to be
> callable with $(). The object could have an 'interactive' member to
> specify how to call it (say, "e" might mean, evaluate an expression
> and pass its value to me, and "s" might mean, just hand it to me as a
> string), and then some other method to actually do the call.

Hmm, I've worked with some packages that did similar things using
mandatory docstrings.

def strcmp (expr1, expr2):
"""strcmp: EXPR, EXPR

Compare expr1 and expr2 as strings."""
doit

Dunno if that's wise.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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