On Apr 4, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:05 AM, fwierzbi...@gmail.com > <fwierzbi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As a re-implementor of ast.py that tries to be node for node >> compatible, I'm fine with #1 but would really like to have tests that >> will fail in test_ast.py to alert me! > > [and] > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Foord > <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> A lot of tools that work with Python source code use ast - so even though >> other implementations may not use the same ast "under the hood" they will >> probably at least *want* to provide a compatible implementation. IronPython >> is in that boat too (although I don't know if we *have* a compatible >> implementation yet - we certainly feel like we *should* have one). > > Ok, so it sounds like ast is *not* limited to CPython?
Oh, definitely not. I would be pretty dismayed if tools like <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~divmod-dev/divmod.org/trunk/files/head:/Pyflakes/> would not run on Jython & PyPy. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
