Re: plpython function problem workaround

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:03:36PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote:
>>> OMG! It's indenting the funtion body. I think you can't do that
>>> w/o being syntax-aware. I'm not familiar with the code, why is it
>>> adding a 'def' in front of it at all? I undestand that once you do
>>> it you'll have to shift the code by an indentation level.
>
>> Presumbly because it wants to create a function, which can later be
>> called. Since python is sensetive to whitespace it has to indent the
>> code to make it work.
>
> Seems like we have to upgrade that thing to have a complete
> understanding of Python lexical rules --- at least enough to know where
> the line boundaries are.  Which is pretty much exactly the same as
> knowing which CRs to strip out.  So I guess we have a candidate place
> for a solution.
>
> Anyone want to code it up?  I don't know enough Python to do it ...

I'm no expert but I'll look into it. Unless someone else already
tried it, I want to investigate first if it's possible to create
a callable object w/o using 'def', which alters the name space and
(the thing we're interested to) needs an extra identation level.

At first sight, what we do now (at function creation time) is:
1) execute a function definition;
2) compile a function call, and save the resulting code object for later use.

I'm wondering if we can save one step, and use a python callable object.

.TM.
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