[Python-Dev] To 3.0.2 or not to 3.0.2? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Feb 18 20:48:17 CET 2009

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

This prompts a wild idea -- perhaps the framework of 2to3 could be reused to create a new linter?

The 2to3 syntax tree is probably two low-level for that. It's good for simple isolated transformations like print, but not so much for the larger scale analysis that a lint tool would require. In addition, we'd have to write some sort of symtable analyzer. High level AST is much nicer to work with that.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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