Home Original page

[Python-Dev] C AST to Python discussion

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Feb 16 07:01:18 CET 2006 
On 2/15/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/15/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > I haven't been following the AST stuff closely enough, but I'm not crazy
> > about putting access to this in the sys module.  It seems like it
> > clutters that up with a name that will be rarely used by the average
> > Python programmer.
>
> Agreed.  I'm hoping we can get rid of lots of code in the compiler
> module and use the AST provided from C.  The compiler module seems the
> best place to put anything related to the AST.
>

Sure, fine with me.  I am not in love with the sys idea, just seemed
reasonable.  I just happen to think of the compiler module as this
Python implementation of the bytecode compiler and not as this generic
package where all compiler-related stuff goes.  But if we move towards
removing the parts of the compiler package that overlap with any AST
being exposed that would be great.

-Brett
More information about the Python-Dev mailing list