[Python-Dev] Tweaking AST lineno and col_offset

[Frank Wierzbicki]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Benjamin Peterson<benjamin at python.org> wrote:

>> I have a local patch that changes the CPython col_offset to match
>> Jython's, but before I submit a patch I thought I'd ask here if there
>> is support for this sort of change and if I should continue to find
>> col_offset and lineno results that look fishy to me, or should I just
>> change Jython's results to match (one way or another, things will be
>> much easier for me to test if they match).
>
> Yes, please submit it.
Great, the patch is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue6704

 BTW - I would have added a test to test_ast.py, but above the test
data it notes: #### EVERYTHING BELOW IS GENERATED ##### and I couldn't
find the tool used for the generation.  Does anyone know where that
is?

-Frank