[Python-Dev] Policy for making changes to the AST (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Mon Apr 4 19:38:24 CEST 2011

On 04/04/2011 18:05, fwierzbicki at gmail.com wrote:

As a re-implementor of ast.py that tries to be node for node compatible, I'm fine with #1 but would really like to have tests that will fail in testast.py to alert me!

A lot of tools that work with Python source code use ast - so even though other implementations may not use the same ast "under the hood" they will probably at least want to provide a compatible implementation. IronPython is in that boat too (although I don't know if we have a compatible implementation yet - we certainly feel like we should have one).

Michael

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