How do you implement “#ifdef” in python?

Question

Programming in C I used to have code sections only used for debugging purposes (logging commands and the like). Those statements could be completely disabled fo

Answer 1

There is no direct equivalent that I'm aware of, so you might want to zoom-out and reconsider the problems that you used to solve using the preprocessor.

If it's just diagnostic logging you're after then there is a comprehensive logging module which should cover everything you wanted and more.

http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html

What else do you use the preprocessor for? Test configurations? There's a config module for that.

http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

Anything else?