Abstract
Support code for rendering function calls to strings to be sent to Autograph. This module provides a function mkstreamtype() that you can call to create a new class that will render calls from its instances to a byte stream instead of calling anything by itself.
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Support code for rendering function calls to strings to be sent to Autograph. This module provides a function mkstreamtype() that you can call to create a new class that will render calls from its instances to a byte stream instead of calling anything by itself.
For example, if you want to render calls to instances of a class 'Line' to stderr, you would to this:
Line = mkstreamtype('Line', sys.stderr) # bind new class
ln = Line('line', (0.1, 1, 0.2), hintx="time", hinty="pnl")
ln.add(12.2, 13.1)
ln.remove('something')
which will result in the following output to stderr:
line = Line((0.10000000000000001, 1, 0.20000000000000001), hintx='time', hinty='pnl')
line.add(12.199999999999999, 13.1)
line.remove('something')
(Note that the representation of floats prevents us from precisely rendering out the original code.)
This can be useful for implementing a quick unidirectional protocol where the server evals the lines in an environment, instead of using something like XML-RPC.
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