[Python-Dev] Python 2.5 and ast-branch

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:34 PM 10/6/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>How does this sound to the non-AST-branch developers who have to
>suffer the inevitable post-merge instability? I think it's now or
>never -- waiting longer isn't going to make this thing easier (not
>with several more language changes approved: with-statement, extended
>import, what else...)

Do the AST branch changes affect the interface of the "parser" module?  Or 
do they just add new functionality?