compiler package vs parser

[Kay Schluehr]

On 16 Apr., 11:41, Robin Becker <ro... at reportlab.com> wrote:

> Is the compiler package actually supposed to be equivalent to the parser module?

No. The parser module creates a concrete parse tree ( CST ) whereas
the compiler package transforms this CST into an AST for subsequent
computations. In more recent versions those CST -> AST transformations
are performed by the runtime and the Python compiler uses those
internally produced ASTs. The Python 2.6 API to ASTs is the ast module.