[Python-ideas] Enabling access to the AST for Python code

[Ben Hoyt]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you.  Has anyone implemented this solution yet?
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 3, 2015, at 13:42, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > There are a lot of messages in this discussion.  Was there a final
>> consensus about how the AST for a given code object should be calculated?
>>
>> I think it depends on what exactly you're trying to do, but using an
>> import hook means you can call compile or ast.parse once and keep it around
>> as well as using it for the compile, so that seems like it should be a good
>> solution for most uses.
>
>
Yes, the MacroPy library uses this approach (import hooks to get and modify
the AST):

https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy

-Bene
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