On 5/24/05, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would there be any interest in extending the compiler package with tools > for AST transformations and for emitting Python source code from ASTs?
Sure. Eventually, we'll have to figure out how to unify the compiler package AST and the ast-branch AST, but don't let that delay you now. > I was experimenting with possible translations for exception chaining > and wanted to run some automated tests, so i started playing around > with the compiler package to do source-to-source transformations. > Then i started working on a way to do template-based substitution of > ASTs and a way to spit source code back out, and i'm wondering if > that might be good for experimenting with future Python features. > > (If there's already stuff out there for doing this, let me know -- > i don't intend to duplicate existing work.) I don't know of any existing work, but it certainly sounds useful. Jeremy _______________________________________________ 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
