[Python-3000] getting compiler package failures

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon May 14 21:00:28 CEST 2007


OK Brett, let 'er rip.

On 5/14/07, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On 5/13/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > test_compiler and test_transformer have been broken for a couple of
> > months now I believe.
> >
> > Unless someone comes to the rescue of the compiler package soon, I'm
> > tempted to remove it from the p3yk branch -- it doesn't seem to serve
> > any particularly good purpose, especially now that the AST used by the
> > compiler written in C is exportable.
>
> We currently lack the ability to take an AST exported by the Python-C
> compiler and pass it back to the compiler to generate bytecode.  It
> would be a lot more practical, however, to add this ability than to
> try to maintain two different compilers.
>
> So a qualified +1 from me.
>
> Jeremy
>
> >
> > --Guido
> >
> > On 5/13/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > > I just did a ``make distclean`` on a clean checkout (r55300) and
> > > test_compiler/test_transformer are failing:
> > >
> > >   File
> > > "/Users/drifty/Dev/python/3.x/pristine/Lib/compiler/transformer.py",
> > > line 715, in atom
> > >      return self._atom_dispatch[nodelist[0][0]](nodelist)
> > > KeyError: 322
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >   File
> > > "/Users/drifty/Dev/python/3.x/pristine/Lib/compiler/transformer.py",
> > > line 776, in lookup_node
> > >     return self._dispatch[node[0]]
> > > KeyError: 331
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >   File
> > > "/Users/drifty/Dev/python/3.x/pristine/Lib/compiler/transformer.py",
> > > line 783, in com_node
> > >     return self._dispatch[node[0]](node[1:])
> > > KeyError: 339
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know the compiler package at all (which is why I am currently
> > stuck
> > > on Tony Lownds' PEP 3113 patch since I am getting a
> > > compiler.transformer.WalkerError) so I have no clue how to
> > > go about fixing this.  Anyone happen to know what may have caused the
> > > breakage?
> > >
> > > -Brett
> > >
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