[Python-Dev] Idea of the Month: Preprocessor (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:54:51 -0500

Enable a command line option [-p filename.py] and a related environment variable PYTHONPREPROCESS. The new behavior of the interpreter would then be to submit all of its input to the preprocess program (a module written in pure python) and then interpret the result.

Instead of encumbering the standard Python interpreter, why not write a script that runs its argument after preprocessing it, and inserts a preprocessor in import.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)