[Python-3000] parser/compiler interface [was Re: compiler module]

[Georg Brandl]

Brett Cannon schrieb:
> On Jan 10, 2008 2:08 PM, Joe Angell <joe.d.angell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh I see... forgive my ignorance but could you point me at some
>> documentation or a project that uses the c AST as you mentioned?  Is
>> that done through some part of the C-API?  I cannot find that in the
>> documentation at the moment.
>>
> 
> http://docs.python.org/dev/library/_ast.html

That's also something I wanted to suggest for a cleanup:

Python's code parsing/compiling interface is currently very cluttered:
* you can parse things with parser.suite(), but not create an AST from
   the parse result
* you can create an AST with an undocumented flag to compile(), but not
   compile the resulting AST
* there are too many modules that have to do with parsing and compiling:
   token, symbol, parser, _ast, symtable

I'd suggest a single package to unify all this functionality and an API
that makes it easy to go from every compiling stage to the next, or to
the final code object.

Georg

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