Hello, I'm the developer of PySmell ( http://github.com/orestis/pysmell ), a static analysis/intellisense provider for Python. I am targeting Python 2.4 code so I'm using the compiler package.
I've been toying around yesterday with the ast module in Python 2.6 and it seems much more cleaner. One thing I don't understand is how should one handle backwards and forwards compatibility. The documentation for the ast module states that it "helps to find out programmatically what the current grammar looks like". I can't find any reference (even when reading the code) on how you should go about this, other than checking the sys.version number and reading up on the changes. My understanding is that there is no way to write, say, an ast visitor that runs under Python 3.0 that targets 2.4 because the ast has changed, and there's no way to indicate that you want to parse another version. I guess that Python 2.6 can target Python 2.3-6, and with specific compiler flags it can also target 3.0, so it seems that the correct thing to do is to use that. Am I correct? Am I seriously confused? Please help! Thanks, Orestis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://orestis.gr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list