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

This can be achieved by passing command line argument as below:

import sys

my_macro = 0

if(len(sys.argv) > 1):
    for x in sys.argv:
        if(x == "MACRO"):
            my_macro = 1

if (my_macro == 1):
    controlled text

Try running the following script and observe the results after this:

python myscript.py MACRO

Hope this helps.