On Oct 13, 2:39 pm, Malthe Borch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Note: repost from python-dev) > > The ``compiler.ast`` module makes parsing Python source-code and AST > manipulation relatively painless and it's straight-forward to implement > a transformer class. > > However, I find that the ``compiler.pycodegen`` module imposes a hard > limit on the length of functions since it calculates jump points in a > recursion. > > I'm using this module to compile an XML dynamic template into Python > code (akin to "Mako") and functions may grow to a rather large size. > > Now it seems that the ``parser`` module, which parses source code into > ``parser.st`` trees does not have the same limitations, however, I could > not find a transformer class compatible with its tree structure. > > What's the recommended way of working with the AST tree from the > ``parser`` module?
That's old. Use the shiny new ast module that has a higher level view of the syntax. http://doc.python.org/library/ast.html should start you off. > > \malthe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
