I have an interesting (to me anyway) idea:

What if we added a default option to the GRC-XML-to-python converter to add
the contents of the original GRC file as a big, delineated comment blob.
 Then, a simple tool could pull the GRC back out of the python file anytime
and you could go back and forth.  An option when building would disable the
verbose output for those publishing code or who just don't want the extra
cruft.

It's a little lame, but it solves the problem.  I know I've had to
hand-craft many old GRCs from python files when the original GRC was lost
or the originator was other than myself.  The problem has often crept up
with GRCs not properly updated for new versions of code, where the blocks
go missing in the GRC representation (I think there was talk of fixing this
- graying them out or something).

Very Respectfully,

Dan CaJacob


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Marcus Leech <[email protected]> wrote:

> Think of the Python that gets emitted by GRC as object code.  What you're
> asking is to convert said object code back into reasonable source code.
>
> Such things exist for *actual* machine object-code, but, they produce
> damned-ugly results.
>
> on Dec 02, 2013, *Raydel Abreu (CM2ESP)* <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Oh, that's bad, I guess I should use instead the old code-reading
> method....
>
> Raydel
>
>
> 2013/12/2 Marcus Leech <[email protected]>
>
>> There's no automatic mechanism for doing that.
>>
>>
>> on Dec 02, 2013, *Raydel Abreu (CM2ESP)* <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to go back and convert a Python GNU Radio code back into
>> the GRC Flow Graph from which it was generated?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Raydel, CM2ESP
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