[Python-Dev] python3k vs _ast (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Nov 17 15:50:56 CET 2010

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:19:35AM -0500, R. David Murray wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:36:37 -0600, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote: > 2010/11/17 Oleg Broytman <phd at phd.pp.ru>: > > Seems to be rather a usage question, not a development question (python-dev > > is about developing python, not using it). > > Well, technically I think it's a feature request. > > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Emile Anclin wrote: > >> hello everybody, > >> > >> migrating Pylint to python3.x, we encounter a little problem : > >> in the tree generated by ast, if we consider a "args" node (representing > >> an argument of a function), the "lineno" (and the "coloffset") > >> information disappeared from those nodes. Is there a particular > >> reason for that ? In python2.x, the "args" nodes were just "Name" nodes, > >> and as for now we keep them as "AssName" nodes in astng/pylint and would > >> like to know where it was defined. > > I wouldn't object to adding them back if you want to file a bug report.

It also seems to me that it was a perfectly appropriate question for this list. The question was "why did you developers drop this (obscure) feature that we depend on in Python3?"

The problem for me is the wording. A question like "why did you developers drop a feature?" is certainly a development question, while "like to know where it was defined" seems more like a usage question. I apologize for misunderstanding.

I don't think that question would make sense on python-list. Granted, there's a fuzzy line there, but pylint is really development infrastructure :)

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Oleg.

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