[Python-Dev] Policy for making changes to the AST

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 3 08:55:40 CEST 2011


> 1. Do nothing. This will break code that currently uses AST, but doesn't add
> any complexity to cpython.

I'm in favor of this approach as well. Notice that there is
ast.__version__ precisely so that applications can support multiple AST
versions.

Regards,
Martin


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