Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment: 2010/12/25 Sven Brauch <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > > Sven Brauch <svenbra...@googlemail.com> added the comment: > > Well, weather it's supposed to or not, it *does* contain the line number > information: > <ExprAst lineno="1" col_offset="0"> > For your example, the AST for "foo" tells you the offset for foo. If you want > to know the offset (well, "offset") for blah, why not look at foo? Currently, > the information is just copied from foo to blah.
What if it's like this, though? x = ( foo).blah > > Anyway, I'd like to get away from this abstract discussion which is not > likely to yield a result... is there any reason not to do it like I suggested > other than the philosophical "it's wrong"? Or don't you agree that the > information given this way would be more useful? It wouldn't be any more useful than it is now. I don't think it's reasonably possible to preserve every last obscure formatting in ast. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10769> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
