[Python-Dev] Backquote deprecation warning (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Nov 24 00:48:48 CET 2007

Christian Heimes wrote:

Should the node structure gain an additional field to drag the filename around?

Why not?

Early on in the design of the Pyrex compiler, I made the decision that every parse tree node would contain a source filename and position, down to character resolution. It's paid off enormously, as I can produce highly pinpointed error messages for just about anything at any stage of processing.

-- Greg

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list