python-astor binary package in Ubuntu Xenial amd64
astor is designed to allow easy manipulation of Python source via the AST.
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There are some other similar libraries, but astor focuses on the following
areas:
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- Round-trip back to Python via Armin Ronacher's codegen.py module:
- Modified AST doesn't need linenumbers, ctx, etc. or otherwise be directly
compileable
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- Dump pretty-printing of AST
- Harder to read than round-tripped code, but more accurate to figure out
what is going on.
- Easier to read than dump from built-in AST module
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- Non-recursive treewalk
- Sometimes you want a recursive treewalk (and astor supports that, starting
at any node on the tree), but sometimes you don't need to do that. astor
doesn't require you to explicitly visit sub-nodes unless you want to:
- You can add code that executes before a node's children are visited,
and/or
- You can add code that executes after a node's children are visited, and/or
- You can add code that executes and keeps the node's children from being
visited (and optionally visit them yourself via a recursive call)
- Write functions to access the tree based on object names and/or attribute
names
- Enjoy easy access to parent node(s) for tree rewriting
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This package provides Python 2 module bindings only.
Publishing history
Date | Status | Target | Component | Section | Priority | Phased updates | Version | ||
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2015-10-22 15:20:22 UTC | Published | Ubuntu Xenial amd64 | release | universe | python | Optional | 0.5-1 | ||
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