Re: Is it possible to do literate programming without org-babel?

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

"I.S." <inquisitive.scientist@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear Experts,
>
> I think org-babel is great and use it when I can. But on larger
> projects where some people are not emacs users, it may not be feasible
> for the master file to be an org-mode file.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on using literate programming techniques
> when the source code must be in a .py file?
>
> One thing I have tried is switching to org-mode when I want to write
> comments, create links, etc. and do that in org-mode and then switch
> back to python mode. This actually works reasonably well but it's
> annoying to switch modess.
>
> Any better ideas?

This probably is not going to help you but I have the same problem.

What I do, *when* the project is one in which I am the main lead, is to
keep using org mode, without switching modes, but when I need to share
something with my collaborator, I *tangle* all the code and send him
both the code and the org document.  This means that he can run the
code.  However, the code has no comments in it...

Of course, incorporating any changes my collaborator makes back into the
org document is annoying but manageable.
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1
: using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.169.g0d0e)