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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-08-19 20:10, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>
>>> But does that have to be a joke?  Couldn't we generate imports (well,
>>> those
>>> from other Launchpad modules) automatically during branch build?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I would much rather use editor tools than a preprocessor. Once we
>> introduce a mandatory preprocessing stage, we are no longer writing
>> Python code. Editor tools provide much the same convenience, but leave
>> us still writing standard Python.
>
...
> The part I haven't thought about at all yet is how to avoid this being an
> extra step, or a noticeable delay, for the developer.  But at any rate we
> may find a "make" before testing preferable over editing imports ourselves.
>  I for one dislike that jump to the top of the file and back.
>

Easily avoided with a scriptable editor. IIRC, Edwin demonstrated a
vim script for this at the Epic.

jml