On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > 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) >
Hmm. I saw a few (things like codegen), but was hoping to stick to the standard library - introducing a dependency in a small script just for the sake of tidy output is a bit messy. Oh well. Some things just aren't as ideal as I'd like. Thanks Irmen! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
