On 5/17/2018 3:01 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
I fed this into tokenize.tokenize():
b''' x = "\u1234" '''
I was a bit surprised to see \Uxxxx in the output. Particularly because
the output (t.string) was a *string* and not *bytes*.
For those (like me) who have no idea how to use tokenize.tokenize's
wacky interface, the test code is:
list(tokenize.tokenize(io.BytesIO(b''' x = "\u1234" ''').readline))
Maybe I'm making a parade of my ignorance, but I assumed that string
literals were parsed by the parser--just like everything else is parsed
by the parser, hey it seems like a good place for it--and in particular
that the escape sequence substitutions would be done in the tokenizer.
Having stared at it a little, I now detect a whiff of "this design
solved a real problem". So... what was the problem, and how does this
design solve it?
I assume the intent is to not throw away any information in the lexer,
and give the parser full access to the original string. But that's just
a guess.
BTW, my use case is that I hoped to use CPython's tokenizer to parse
some Python-ish-looking text and handle double-quoted strings for me.
*Especially* all the escape sequences--leveraging all CPython's support
for funny things like \U{penguin}. The current behavior of the
tokenizer makes me think it'd be easier to roll my own!
Can you feed the token text to the ast?
>>> ast.literal_eval('"\u1234"')
'ሴ'
Eric
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