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I was just pleasantly surprised to came across the documentation of Python's compiler package, but noticed that it's gone in Python 3.0, without any clear replacement or explanation.
I can't seem to find any discussion on python-dev about how this decision was made - does anyone have any insight inot this decision?
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To expand on this answer: the compiler package was an absolute pain to maintain and almost always either slightly out of date or subtly different from the "real" compiler. Making it easier to work with the real compiler via the ast module made maintenance a lot easier while still providing similar functionality.
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For what it's worth, I started a port of the compiler package to Python3: https://github.com/pfalcon/python-compiler . At the time of writing, it generates bytecode compatible with CPython3.5, and can compiler entire standard library of that version.