Tools for Source Code Generation

class pytools.codegen.CodeGenerator

Language-agnostic functionality for source code generation.

extend(sub_generator)

Parameters

sub_generator (pytools.codegen.CodeGenerator) –

Return type

None

get()

Return type

str

add_to_preamble(s)

Parameters

s (str) –

Return type

None

__call__(s)

Call self as a function.

Parameters

s (str) –

Return type

None

indent()

Return type

None

dedent()

Return type

None

class pytools.codegen.Indentation(generator)

A context manager for indentation for use with CodeGenerator.

generator

__enter__()

Return type

None

__exit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)

Parameters

• exc_type (Any) –

• exc_val (Any) –

• exc_tb (Any) –

Return type

None

pytools.codegen.remove_common_indentation(code, require_leading_newline=True)

Remove leading indentation from one or more lines of code.

Removes an amount of indentation equal to the indentation level of the first nonempty line in code.

Parameters

• code (str) – Input string.

• require_leading_newline (bool) – If True, only remove indentation if code starts with \n.

Returns

A copy of code stripped of leading common indentation.