Python Macros: Use Cases?

Question

If Python had a macro facility similar to Lisp/Scheme (something like MetaPython), how would you use it?

If you are a Lisp/Scheme programmer, what sorts of things do y

Answer 1

Well, I'd like instead of

print >> sys.stderr, "abc"

to write

err "abc"

in some scripts which have many debug printout statements.

I can do

import sys
err = sys.stderr

and then

print >> err, "abc"

which is shorter, but that still takes too many characters on the line.