[Python-Dev] Enable access to the AST for Python code (original) (raw)

Steve Dower Steve.Dower at microsoft.com
Thu May 21 15:05:29 CEST 2015


It's only a macro system when you generate code in unexpected/unobvious places with it. This is more like inspect.getsource(), but going straight to the AST.

Cheers, Steve

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From: Greg Ewing<mailto:greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> Sent: ‎5/‎20/‎2015 22:33 To: Python-Dev<mailto:python-dev at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Enable access to the AST for Python code

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Hey Ben, this is probably a better topic for python-ideas. I'll warn you that a hurdle for ideas like this is that ideally you don't want to support this just for CPython. It's definitely cool though!

This would effectively be a macro system. I thought your position on macros was that they're uncool?

If you've changed your mind about this, that's cool too -- just checking.

-- Greg


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