On Jul 11, 12:27 am, eliben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip>> > 2) What is the meaning of the comment in astgen.py ? Are the Python > > > maintainers unhappy with the design of the AST ?3 > > > Node, I think, is talking about a node in the parse tree. (AST is > > generated from another parse tree.) See PEP 339 for details. > > <snip> > > Thanks, PEP 339 clarified a lot to me. I wonder, though, at the need > for two Python compilation frameworks in the same code base. While > CPython uses the flow described in PEP 339 (parsing to an AST > generated from ASDL), the compiler module of the standard library > takes a different approach, with a custom AST description syntax in > ast.txt > Why aren't the two methods unified. I.e. can't the compiler.ast module > be also generated from ASDL, and provide a more unified interface to > the real thing ?
You are correct on all points and this is one of the main reasons that the compiler package is going away in 3.0. > > Eli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
