[Python-Dev] ANN: PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Sep 15 03:54:51 CEST 2004

exarkun at divmod.com:

Python's parser is already available, through the compiler module. The example given earlier, query("x and y or z"), is relatively straightforward to implement as a set of AST manipulations.

But that misses the point, which is to have the expression blend in seamlessly with the rest of the Python code. Anything which requires the explicit invocation of a separate parsing phase prevents that.

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