On 19-2-2014 4:58, Chris Angelico wrote: > but what I'd really like to do is get something that looks > approximately like "x[1]". Is there an easy way to do that? Its str > and repr aren't useful, and I can't see a "reconstitute" method on the > node, nor a function in ast itself for the job. In theory I could > write one, but it'd need to understand every node type, so it seems > the most logical place would be on the node itself - maybe in __str__. > > Is there anything nice and easy? I don't care if it's not perfect, as > long as it's more readable than ast.dump(). :) >
Maybe this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astor can do what you want? (found it by following a few links starting from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/768634/python-parse-a-py-file-read-the-ast-modify-it-then-write-back-the-modified) Irmen -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list