[Python-Dev] astgen.py vs. ASDL for ASTs

[Eli Bendersky]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:
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>> 2013/9/25 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello,
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>> > Some history (as best as I could collect it) followed by a question:
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>> > Before Python 2.5, the ast stdlib module was auto generated by a script
>> > named astgen.py from a textual AST definition in Tools/compiler/ast.txt.
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>> Sorry, what Python 2.4 ast stdlib module? Any module named "ast" (or
>> "_ast") didn't exist until 2.5.
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> Lib/compiler/ast.py (that's in 2.4)
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> Sorry, I should have been more precise
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http://docs.python.org/release/2.4/lib/module-compiler.ast.html
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