On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 4:20 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 2:48 PM Pablo Galindo Salgado
> <pablog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > About the migration, can I ask who is going to (help to) fix projects
> > which rely on the AST?
> >
> > I think you misunderstood: The AST is exactly the same as the old and
> the new parser. The only
> > the thing that the new parser does is not generate an immediate CST
> (Concrete Syntax Tree) and that
> > is only half-exposed in the parser module.
>
> If the AST is supposed to be the same, then would it make sense to
> temporarily – maybe just during the alpha/beta period – always run
> *both* parsers and confirm that they match?
>

That's not a bad idea! https://github.com/we-like-parsers/cpython/issues/33

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