[Python-Dev] Recent experience with the _ast module

[Greg Ewing]

Brett Cannon wrote:

> Because the AST code at the C level represent the 'op' value as
> basically an enumeration value, not a string.  So creating an object
> is somewhat easier then trying to do the conversion to an interned
> string.

It would seem even easier (and a lot faster) to use an
array to go from C enum --> some object, which could
as well be an interned string as anything else.

--
Greg