[Python-Dev] Recent experience with the _ast module

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>> On 2/12/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2) {BinOp,AugAssign,BoolOp,etc}.op
>> I can't think of a reason, off the top of my head, why they can't be
>> singletons.
> 
> Why not just use interned strings?

Because it's generated code. It has to follow rules, and it would
be good if there were few exceptions.

Regards,
Martin