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

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/10/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Now I'll *really* try to get pgen in. Unfortunately I can't make the
April 17 deadline.

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