[Python-ideas] Could the ast module's ASTs preserve source_length in addition to lineno and col_offset?

[Haoyi Li]

I don't need to keep the source code, I just need a single integer for each
node. I would then be able to reconstruct the source snippet.




On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:

> On 30/05/13 09:06, Haoyi Li wrote:
>
>  I want the original source code for debugging/tracing purposes
>>
>
> Do you have an idea of the memory overhead of keeping the source code
> around?
>
> Is it worth having the ast module honour the __debug__ flag (-O and -OO
> switches), and *not* preserve source when optimizations are in effect? That
> may mean that some ast operations cannot run under -O or -OO, in the same
> way that code that cares about __doc__ strings cannot meaningfully run
> under -OO. That's okay by me.
>
>
>
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