Customizing your first import hook ==================================== .. admonition:: Summary This builds upon our previous example of allowing ``function`` to being equivalent to ``lambda``. This example demonstrates the use of passing back parameters to an import hook and some possible usage. Building a more complete example ---------------------------------- In addition to making it easy to create import hooks, |ideas| also attempts to make it easy to include diagnostic "tools". The ``function_keyword`` example, whose API listed below includes links to the actual source, includes such "tools". While they can help during development, they do admitedly make the code more complicated. If you want to create your own hook, you do not have to include all possible features. For example, here is a much simpler version, functionally equivalent the `function_keyword included with ideas `_ but without some diagnostic options included:: from ideas import import_hook, token_utils def transform_source(source, **_kwargs): new_tokens = [] for token in token_utils.tokenize(source): if token == "function": token.string = "lambda" new_tokens.append(token) return token_utils.untokenize(new_tokens) def add_hook(**_kwargs): return import_hook.create_hook(transform_source=transform_source, name=__name__) Note the unused ``**_kwargs`` in the definition of ``transform_source`` and ``add_hook``: you should ensure to add something similar when creating your own import hook even if you do not plan to make use of extra parameters. Also, each import hook should have a unique ``name``: by convention, we use the ``name`` of the module (``__name__``) where it is defined and we never have two import hooks created in the same module. Goal: comparing the transformed code with the original source -------------------------------------------------------------- It might be sometimes useful to compare the original source with the transformed one. Instead of actually adding ``print`` statements when needed, we could use some callback parameters to enable or disable such ``print`` statemeent. |ideas| makes it fairly easy to do this using callback parameters. Here's the basic **pattern** used in almost all the examples: .. include:: ../../docs_examples/first_hook_customized/my_function_keyword.py :code: python Here's an actual example started from a standard Python interpreter (which cannot tranform the code in the REPL itself), and where we use the |ideas| console to only highlight the changes:: >>> import my_function_keyword >>> my_function_keyword.add_hook() >>> from ideas import console >>> console.start() Ideas Console version 0.3.3. [Python version: 3.11.9] ideas> sq = function x: x**2 ideas> sq(3) 9 .. admonition:: Console quirk Regardless of how you attempt to modify the source, the strings ``exit()`` and ``quit()`` are hard-coded in |ideas| **console** to do what a normal user would expect. We had to do this after the nice :doc:`polish_expr ` (Reverse Polish notation) import hook example was contributed by Devin J. Pohly and we attempted to use it. 😉