[Python-Dev] astgen.py vs. ASDL for ASTs (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 15:35:53 CEST 2013


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

2013/9/25 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>: > Hello, > > Some history (as best as I could collect it) followed by a question: > > Before Python 2.5, the ast stdlib module was auto generated by a script > named astgen.py from a textual AST definition in Tools/compiler/ast.txt.

Sorry, what Python 2.4 ast stdlib module? Any module named "ast" (or "ast") didn't exist until 2.5.

Lib/compiler/ast.py (that's in 2.4)

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