On Thu., 21 Nov. 2019, 3:30 am Brett Cannon, <br...@python.org> wrote:
> Victor Stinner wrote: > > > It's mostly to minimize the number of imports on "import ast". unparse > > requires extra imports like tokenize which has also tons of > > dependencies. > > Why are you specifically worried about that? If you're doing AST > transformations you're probably either doing it offline/AOT or you're > already doing extra processing which means you probably aren't stressing > over how quickly an initial import will take if this is all worries > surrounding doing live AST transformations on the way to writing out > bytecode or loading a module on the fly. > The AST module is also the home of "ast.literal_eval", and that is going to be used in a much wider variety of situations. Cheers, Nick. >
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