Are there any libraries for generating Python source?

Question

I'd like to write a code generation tool that will allow me to create sourcefiles for dynamically generated classes. I can create the class and use it in code, but it would be nice to have a sourcefile both for documentation and to allow something to import.

Does such a thing exist? I've seen sourcecodegen, but I'd rather avoid messing with the ast trees as they're not portable.

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any off-the-shelf library, but have a look at the Python templating engines Mako and Jinja2. They can both generate Python source behind the scenes (they convert text templates to Python code and then to Python bytecode).