[Python-Dev] Recent experience with the _ast module (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Feb 14 01:40:56 CET 2007

On 2/13/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote: > On 2/12/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote: > > 2) {BinOp,AugAssign,BoolOp,etc}.op > > I can't think of a reason, off the top of my head, why they can't be > singletons.

Why not just use interned strings?

Because the AST code at the C level represent the 'op' value as basically an enumeration value, not a string. So creating an object is somewhat easier then trying to do the conversion to an interned string. Or at least I suspect; Martin can tell me I'm wrong if I am.

-Brett

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