[Python-Dev] python -m tokenize in 3.x ?

[Meador Inge]

Hi All,

I have been investing some 'tokenize' bugs recently.  As a part of
that investigation I was trying to use '-m tokenize', which works
great in 2.x:

[meadori at motherbrain cpython]$ python2.7 -m tokenize test.py
1,0-1,5:        NAME    'print'
1,6-1,21:       STRING  '"Hello, World!"'
1,21-1,22:      NEWLINE '\n'
2,0-2,0:        ENDMARKER       ''

In 3.x, however, the functionality has been removed and replaced with
some hard-wired test code:

[meadori at motherbrain cpython]$ python3 -m tokenize test.py
TokenInfo(type=57 (ENCODING), string='utf-8', start=(0, 0), end=(0, 0), line='')
TokenInfo(type=1 (NAME), string='def', start=(1, 0), end=(1, 3),
line='def parseline(self, line):')
TokenInfo(type=1 (NAME), string='parseline', start=(1, 4), end=(1,
13), line='def parseline(self, line):')
TokenInfo(type=53 (OP), string='(', start=(1, 13), end=(1, 14),
line='def parseline(self, line):')
...

Why is this?  I found the commit where the functionality was removed
[1], but no explanation.  Any objection to adding this feature back?

[1] http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/51e24512e305/

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