Eryk Sun added the comment: What you're looking for is in the 2nd paragraph of the ast docs:
An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST as a flag to the compile() built-in function, or using the parse() helper provided in this module. The result will be a tree of objects whose classes all inherit from ast.AST. An abstract syntax tree can be compiled into a Python code object using the built-in compile() function. For example: >>> mod = compile('42', '', 'exec', ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST) >>> mod <_ast.Module object at 0x7f0e45b15be0 >>> ast.dump(mod) 'Module(body=[Expr(value=Num(n=42))])' In the discussion of `flags`, I think the compile docs should explicitly list ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST and the CO_FUTURE_* flags in a table. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27119> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com