Getting the type of an AST Node

[Nick Edds]

Ahh sorry. This was in Python 2.5.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> Nick Edds wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to figure out what the type of an AST Node is?
>>
>
> Specify version.
>
> ? If I
>
>> have a node n, doing type(n) doesn't help because it gives me <type
>> 'instance'>,
>>
>
> Sounds like instances of an old-style class.  Gone in 3.0.  You might try
> AST in 3.0 to see what you get.
>
>
>
>  but what I really want is If, or And, or whatever node type
>
>> the node actually is. I could always just look at n.__repr__(), because
>> the repr for each node type is in the format NodeType(x), but this seems
>> like an inelegant solution.
>>
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