[Python-3000] compiler module

[Brett Cannon]

On Jan 10, 2008 1:50 PM, Joe Angell <joe.d.angell at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you plan on letting third party tools utilize the new grammar?

Don't need to plan anything; people are already using the AST that
Python's compiler uses since 2.5 came out.

> Will they have to write their own parser then, or is there some kind
> of plugin architecture?

No parser is required; Python's parser already handles the parsing.

-Brett



>
> Thanks,
>
> joe
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 10:34 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2008 8:39 AM, Joe Angell <joe.d.angell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My apologies if this has been asked before, but are there any plans to
> > > add the compiler module back in to py3k?  If so, any idea on a
> > > timeline?  If help is needed I may be able to put in some time on
> > > this.  I've already back ported some of the py3k grammar (function
> > > parameter annotations) to python 2.5.1 so I can use this with the
> > > compiler module, but I think it would be sweet to just use py3k
> > > directly.
> >
> > AFAIK there are no such plans; maintaining two versions of the
> > compiler (one in Python and one in C) has turned out to be a
> > nightmare, with the Python version always running behind and having
> > bugs because it wasn't used much for real work.
> >
> > --
> > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> >
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