[Python-ideas] Retain string form of AST Numbers

[Ryan]

I could probably try that if you give a slightly clearer description.

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> Articles like
>http://time-loop.tumblr.com/post/47664644/python-ast-preserving-whitespace-and-comments
>> suggest to me that we may need to start pushing people *away* from
>the
>> ast module and add a lib2to3 inspired API specifically for lossless
>> transformations based on the *actual* grammar of the running Python
>> version
>
>Ooh that looks promising. I might try to knock up a recipe for some
>sort of "interactive Python in decimal mode", which would cover one of
>the important cases for which people ask for decimal literals. It'd
>not be perfect without some monkey-patch for int/int -> float, unless
>simply every non-complex number becomes a Decimal.
>
>Or if I don't get around to it, maybe someone else can?
>
>ChrisA
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