[Python-Dev] Range information in the AST -- once more (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 15:44:39 CET 2012

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello!

I'm writing a static language analyzer for an IDE which reuses the CPython parser (for parsing) [1]. Two years ago, I asked about a few changes to be made to the AST provided by CPython, but the discussion thread dried up before a definite decision was made. I decided to just copy the parser code to my project and make the necessary changes there back then. I'm bringing this up again now since after my project has seen its first release recently, packagers are (understandably) a bit unhappy about the python fork residing in its repository. I would really like to get rid of that fork and link against the vanilla libpython instead.

It certainly sounds like its worth considering for 3.4. It's a new feature, though, so it unfortunately wouldn't be possible to backport it to any earlier releases.

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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