Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: If someone wants to parse a simple expression that may be a string he should use the "eval" mode.
>>> ast.dump(ast.parse("'test'")) "Module(body=[], docstring='test')" >>> ast.dump(ast.parse("'test'", mode='eval')) "Expression(body=Str(s='test'))" ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29646> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com