alt Hacker NewsYou missed the point. I’m well aware python has formatters, I use them and implemented my own. The point was that when generating/manipulating python code you cannot just generate in whatever format then run a formatter. you need to carefully keep track of the exact indentation at place where the code in written
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ameliaquining • today at 2:41 AM
If I were doing this, and the code generator was itself in Python, I'd probably use ast and/or tokenize to avoid having to manipulate literal whitespace.
Fair. That is a very slight friction on what is quite a small niche, though (compared to the wider ecosystem of developers). And most that need similar will use AST or runtime construction.
The trivial kind of raw source generation is still trivial, but I'm guessing you're doing embedding/templates or something?