New submission from Richard K <qpot...@gmail.com>:
Currently within the ast module, `dump` generates a string representation of
the AST for example,
>>> ast.dump(node)
'Module(body=[], type_ignores=[])'
The proposed enhancement would provide a complementary function, `dump_json` as
in a json representation of the ast.
This would be useful for those who would like to benefit from the utilities of
the json module for formatting, pretty-printing, and the like.
It would also be useful for those who want to serialize the AST or export it in
a form that can be consumed in an other programming language.
A simplified example,
>>> import ast
>>> node = ast.parse('')
>>> ast.dump_json(node)
{'Module': {'body': [], 'type_ignores': []}}
A simplified example of using `ast.dump_json` with the json module,
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(ast.dump_json(node))
'{"Module": {"body": [], "type_ignores": []}}'
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 362256
nosy: sparverius
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: add dump_json to ast module
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9
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<https://bugs.python.org/issue39686>
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