Recompile AST?

[François Pinard]

[chrisspen at gmail.com]

> Is it possible to recompile the AST generated by compiler.parse, back 
> into code or an executable code object?  My aim here is to allow 
> a script to manipulate Python code as elements within a list. However, 
> it doesn't look like the module has any native methods designed to do 
> this.

Pynits does something like this for pretty-printing Python statements, 
from within Vim.  I did not touch this project for a while, yet I still 
intend to revisit it in a few weeks or months (for an actual need).  You 
may peek at:

   http://fp-etc.progiciels-bpi.ca/pynits.html

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François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca