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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> wrote:

2013/9/25 Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
\>
\> Some history (as best as I could collect it) followed by a question:
\>
\> Before Python 2.5, the ast stdlib module was auto generated by a script
\> named astgen.py from a textual AST definition in Tools/compiler/ast.txt.

Sorry, what Python 2.4 ast stdlib module? Any module named "ast" (or
"\_ast") didn't exist until 2.5.

Lib/compiler/ast.py (that's in 2.4)

Sorry, I should have been more precise