[Python-3000] Refactoring tool available (work in progress) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 14:08:55 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

In the sandbox I've been working on a refactoring tool, which could form the basis for a Python 2.x -> 3.0 conversion tool. I'd like to invite folks here to give it a try and give me a hand. It certainly needs more work, but I think that the basic infrastructure is sound. Check out sandbox/2to3/: http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/.

This message is to invite feedback, and to encourage contributions. It would be great if people tried their hands at writing new transformations!

Looking at a fix Georg just checked in for intern() - is there a way for the fixer to indicate to the refactoring tool that a particular module needs to be imported if the module being refactored triggers a match on the fix?

In the intern() case, an entire module could be fixed just by putting "from sys import intern" at the start of the module, instead of fixing it at each invocation point.

This would also have the virtue of not breaking code that overrides intern() - because the new import would be at the start of the module, it would still be overridden, just like the current builtin.

For example, if a fix could provide a 'module_prefix' method which returned something to be inserted at the beginning of the module if the fix was triggered at least once, then the intern fix might look like:

class FixIntern(object): # No change to init or match from Georg's checked in version

 def module_prefix(self):
     # Add 'from sys import intern' to the top of the module
     return pytree.Node(syms.import_from,
                       (pytree.Leaf(token.NAME, "sys"),
                        pytree.Leaf(token.NAME, "intern")
                       )) # Is that the right pytree incantation?

 def transform(self, node):
     # Actual occurences are left alone
     return node

Cheers, Nick.

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