[Pipet Devel] and still more infrastructure things

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Rahul Jain wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Justin Bradford wrote:
> 
> > I miss enclosed blocks, but otherwise I'm doing ok.
> > {
> >    whitespace   usage should
> >       be random  . you can just  parse  around
> >
> >  it.
> > }
> 
> Regarding this problem, I think we could hack up a preprocessor in perl to
> convert stuff like this to standard python, sorta like cpp but customized
> for python. There could also be a line we put that the top that defines
> the format of this file. We could also make deprocessors to convert from
> one format to the cannonical style of the other.
> 

To help ease someone's transition into Python, it might be an interesting
project, although Python programmers won't understand it being written in Perl
;-)

You would have to replace not only {} but ;



Jeff
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