[Python-3000] AST access (WAS: Adaptation vs. Generic Functions)

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Anyway, I'm not sure I consider this a strong use case for needing
> access to Python's AST; the language you need to parse is much smaller
> than Python and a custom parser would probably do just as well.

So maybe this is an argument for having some
kind of simple parsing package in the stdlib,
for knocking up little specialised languages
like this.

--
Greg