[New-bugs-announce] [issue44177] Unable to get the else while parsing through AST module

[Bikram Singh Mehra]

New submission from Bikram Singh Mehra <bikrammehra97 at gmail.com>:

Hi Team,

I was parsing python file using AST module but ran into a situation where the else statement is not found in the parsed data.

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Module used is: ast
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In the parsed data I can see "if" followed by "elif" but the "else" part I am not able to see.

Sample code used:
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sample_data = """
if num > 0:
    print("Positive number")
elif num == 0:
    print("Zero")
else:
    print("Negative number")
"""
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tree = ast.parse(sample_data )

The above code provide me below data in ast.dump(tree)

Module(body=[If(test=Compare(left=Name(id='num', ctx=Load()), ops=[Gt()], comparators=[Constant(value=0, kind=None)]), body=[Expr(value=Call(func=Name(id='print', ctx=Load()), args=[Constant(value='Positive number', kind=None)], keywords=[]))], orelse=[If(test=Compare(left=Name(id='num', ctx=Load()), ops=[Eq()], comparators=[Constant(value=0, kind=None)]), body=[Expr(value=Call(func=Name(id='print', ctx=Load()), args=[Constant(value='Zero', kind=None)], keywords=[]))], orelse=[Expr(value=Call(func=Name(id='print', ctx=Load()), args=[Constant(value='Negative number', kind=None)], keywords=[]))])])], type_ignores=[])

While I was traversing through this tree I can't see else in the structure because it is subpart of orelse i.e. inside elif part.


Doc referred is : https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html
 

Thanks and Best Regards,
Bikram

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components: Parser
messages: 393941
nosy: bikrammehra97, lys.nikolaou, pablogsal
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unable to get the else while parsing through AST module
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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