On 4/19/2021 12:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
We had a similar thing at Dropbox, where `# coding: pyxl` would enable
a preprocessor that allowed HTML embedded in the Python code. It
translated this to function calls and string literals.
There were however several drawbacks:
- Installing the codec is a bit tricky, and if you don't have it the
code can't run
- Other tooling won't know about the new syntax (someone went through
heroic efforts to write a PyCharm extension for pyxl but it got stale
very quickly)
- The codec slows down the import process
- Keeping line numbers accurate in the codec is painful
- Occasionally, when debugging mysteries, you end up needing to see
the source code after preprocessing, which requires yet another custom
tool
In the end the project was withdrawn and we switched to more
mainstream templating solutions.
I suspect that many of the issues with pyxl would also plague using
this approach as a way to customize typing syntax, and I don't think
it would be an improvement over the status quo.
How does this "similar thing" compare to the recently announced imphook
module?
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