"Bengt Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think the relationship of abstract entities and their concrete > representations > is very interesting.
ditto > BTW, maybe this is a place to mention the concept of an AST decorator, > that works like > a function decorator except that it is prefixed with @@ instead of @ and > it operates > at compile time when the AST becomes available, but before it gets > translated to code, > and what gets passed to the decorator is the AST One can do this much today: import compiler new_ast = ast_transformer(compiler.parse('''\ <code here> ''') However, I can't see any way in the docs to get a code object from the AST. I believe the AST-to-code compilet is currently being worked on. When it is, @@ would be nice syntactic sugar but not really necessary. > The idea is that this form of decoration could transform the > AST arbitrarily before code generation, and be a very flexible tool > for mischief of course, but also useful tricky things. At the moment, we are limited to manipulating concrete text before compiling it. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list