Bernard Lebel wrote: > In the task I'm currently having, I have to dynamically create a > certain number of layout elements along its logic. The number of > elements to create changes from one execution to the next, as it is > driven by the user input. Since properpty plugins do not support such > dynamic creation, my only solution is with the "on-the-fly" approach. > > Now what I'd like to do is to create "real" functions, not strings, > and convert them into strings for logic injection.
I think the inspect module is as good as you are going to get and it is just looking up the source code for a function and giving it back to you so it won't work with any kind of dynamic function, for example a function created inside a closure would not have a useful string representation in source. Maybe you should look instead at flexible ways of creating the strings you need, some kind of template language. There are some simple ones in the Python Cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/search?query=template&x=0&y=0§ion=PYTHONCKBK&type=Subsection http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52305 and quite a few more that have been developed for Web server use: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
