On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 19:20, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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> Since last fall's core sprint in London, Pablo Galindo Salgado, Lysandros Nikolaou and myself have been working on a new parser for CPython. We are now far enough along that we present a PEP we've written:
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> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/
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> Hopefully the PEP speaks for itself. We are hoping for a speedy resolution so we can land the code we've written before 3.9 beta 1.
Excellent news! One question - will there be any user-visible change
as a result of this PEP other than the removal of the "parser" module?
From my quick reading of the PEP, I didn't see anything, so I assume
the answer is "no".
I suppose it depends on how deep you dig, but the intention is that the returned AST is identical in each case. (We've "cheated" a bit by making a few small changes to the code that produces an AST for the old parser, mostly bugs related to line/column numbers.)
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