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How I added C-style for-loops to Python
https://tushar.lol/post/cursed-for/
Or alternatively: How I made the most cursed Python package of all time.
https://tushar.lol/post/cursed-for/
Or alternatively: How I made the most cursed Python package of all time.
If it's valid syntax you can technically do pretty much whatever you want at runtime with enough hacks. I know pytest does some pretty crazy stuff to get nicer error messages from asserts (e.g. so it can display the value of a and b for assert a == b
)
As soon as it's invalid syntax it becomes harder. You can't parse it into an ast, which I assume is why they used regex.