[Python-ideas] Retain string form of AST Numbers

[Guido van Rossum]

The former. It's porpose is to generate code, not to reproduce the source.

On Sunday, April 6, 2014, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 04/05/2014 03:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>
>> Lib2to3 has its own parser and tree so it can reconstruct the file,
>> with comments. AST just throws away too much.
>>
>
> Are you saying it throws away too much for the question at hand, or that
> it throws away too much and should be modified to not throw away too much?
>
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