Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5 and ast-branch

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

If we kill the branch for now, then anyone that wants to bring up the idea again can write a PEP first

I still have some (very) small hope that it can be finished. If we don't get it done soon then I fear that it will never happen. I had hoped that a SoC student would pick up the task or someone would ask for a grant from the PSF. Oh well.

A strategy that may work out better is [...]

Another thought I've had recently is that most of the complexity seems to be in the CST to AST translator. Perhaps having a parser that provided a nicer CST might help. Neil