[Python-Dev] Python 1.7 tokenization feature request (original) (raw)

David M. Beazley beazley@rustler.cs.uchicago.edu
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:35:24 -0600 (CST)

gvwilson@nevex.com writes:

Once 1.6 is out the door, would people be willing to consider extending Python's token set to make HTML/XML-ish spellings using entity references legal? This would make the following 100% legal Python:

i = 0 while i < 10: print i & 1 i = i + 1

which would in turn make it easier to embed Python in XML such as config-files-for-whatever-Software-Carpentry-produces-to-replace-make, PMZ, and so on.

Sure, and while we're at it, maybe we can add support for C trigraph sequences as well. Maybe I'm missing the point, but why can't you just use a filter (cgi.escape() or something comparable)? I for one, am NOT in favor of complicating the Python parser in this most bogus manner.

Furthermore, with respect to the editor argument, I can't think of a single reason why any sane programmer would be writing programs in Microsoft Word or whatever it is that you're talking about. Therefore, I don't think that the Python parser should be modified in any way to account for XML tags, entities, or other extraneous markup that's not part of the core language. I know that I, for one, would be extremely pissed if I fired up emacs and had to maintain someone else's code that had all of this garbage in it. Just my 0.02.

-- Dave