def compile_protocol_string(string):
"""Compile extprot protocol objects into python sourcecode.
This function compiles the protocol definitions found in the given
string, returning sourcecode for their corresponding python class
definitions.
"""
from extprot.compiler import ModuleCompiler
mc = ModuleCompiler()
mc.compile_string(string)
return "\n".join(mc.code_lines)
def compile_protocol(infile,outfile):
"""Compile extprot protocol objects into python sourcecode.
This function compiles the protocol definitions found in 'infile'
to sourcecode for their corresponding python class definitions. The
compiled code is written into 'outfile'. Both 'infile' and 'outfile'
can be specified as either a pathname or a file-like object.
If the protocol defnitions change often, it may be more convenient to
use the function extprot.import_protocol() to load them directly from
protocol file, at the expense of some additional parsing overhead.
"""
from extprot.compiler import ModuleCompiler
mc = ModuleCompiler()
mc.compile(infile)
for ln in mc.code_lines:
outfile.write(ln)
outfile.write("\n")
