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Does python have preprocessor directives

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Are there Python 'preprocessor directives'?
I'd like to have something like '#ifdef' to mix code from Python 2 and 3 in a single file. Is that possible? How?

posted May 28, 2013 by anonymous

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1.Python doesn't define a preprocessor, and CPYthon doesn't implement one. Nothing to stop you from doing so, however.
2.It's quite possible that you don't need a preprocessor do what you want, since Python does much less compile-time checking than C. Also, it's possible to store function objects and module objects in variables, and thus to hide many things from the body of the code.
One biggie is print, since that's a reserved word (and a statement) in Python 2.x. But if you're using 2.7 you can use from __future__ import print, or something like that, and just use 3.x function semantics.

answer May 28, 2013 by anonymous
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