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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Wed, 05 Aug 1998 21:10:09 +0000 |
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| 3 % Copyright 1995 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | |
| 4 % and Fred L. Drake, Jr. This copyright notice must be distributed on | |
| 5 % all copies, but this document otherwise may be distributed as part | |
| 6 % of the Python distribution. No fee may be charged for this document | |
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20 The \module{parser} module provides an interface to Python's internal |
| 3198 | 21 parser and byte-code compiler. The primary purpose for this interface |
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26 forming the application. It is also faster. |
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| 7809 | 28 The \module{parser} module was written and documented by Fred |
| 29 L. Drake, Jr. (\email{fdrake@acm.org}).% | |
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| 3198 | 32 There are a few things to note about this module which are important |
| 33 to making use of the data structures created. This is not a tutorial | |
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35 the \module{parser} module are presented. |
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| 47 considered ``correct'' will vary from one version of Python to another | |
| 48 as the formal grammar for the language is revised. However, | |
| 49 transporting code from one Python version to another as source text | |
| 50 will always allow correct parse trees to be created in the target | |
| 51 version, with the only restriction being that migrating to an older | |
| 52 version of the interpreter will not support more recent language | |
| 53 constructs. The parse trees are not typically compatible from one | |
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| 343 >>> ast = parser.expr('a + 5') | |
| 344 >>> code = parser.compileast(ast) | |
| 345 >>> a = 5 | |
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| 4084 | 379 level function and class definitions provided by a module. The |
| 380 classes extract information from the parse tree and provide access to | |
| 381 the information at a useful semantic level, one function provides a | |
| 382 simple low-level pattern matching capability, and the other function | |
| 383 defines a high-level interface to the classes by handling file | |
| 384 operations on behalf of the caller. All source files mentioned here | |
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| 4084 | 401 so there are a large number of intermediate nodes. It is important to |
| 402 read and understand the formal grammar used by Python. This is | |
| 403 specified in the file \file{Grammar/Grammar} in the distribution. | |
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| 419 >>> import pprint | |
| 420 >>> ast = parser.suite(open('docstring.py').read()) | |
| 421 >>> tup = parser.ast2tuple(ast) | |
| 422 >>> pprint.pprint(tup) | |
| 423 (257, | |
| 424 (264, | |
| 425 (265, | |
| 426 (266, | |
| 427 (267, | |
| 428 (307, | |
| 429 (287, | |
| 430 (288, | |
| 431 (289, | |
| 432 (290, | |
| 433 (292, | |
| 434 (293, | |
| 435 (294, | |
| 436 (295, | |
| 437 (296, | |
| 438 (297, | |
| 439 (298, | |
| 440 (299, | |
| 441 (300, (3, '"""Some documentation.\012"""'))))))))))))))))), | |
| 442 (4, ''))), | |
| 443 (4, ''), | |
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| 448 types; they map directly to terminal and non-terminal symbols in the | |
| 449 grammar. Unfortunately, they are represented as integers in the | |
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| 453 from the integers to the symbolic names for the node types. | |
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| 456 elements: the integer \code{257} and three additional tuples. Node | |
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| 459 integers, \code{264}, \code{4}, and \code{0}, represent the node types | |
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| 4084 | 462 Note that these values may change depending on the version of Python |
| 463 you are using; consult \file{symbol.py} and \file{token.py} for | |
| 464 details of the mapping. It should be fairly clear that the outermost | |
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| 4084 | 467 node is much more interesting. In particular, all docstrings are |
| 468 found in subtrees which are formed exactly as this node is formed, | |
| 469 with the only difference being the string itself. The association | |
| 470 between the docstring in a similar tree and the defined entity (class, | |
| 471 function, or module) which it describes is given by the position of | |
| 472 the docstring subtree within the tree defining the described | |
| 473 structure. | |
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| 487 | |
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| 489 if vars is None: | |
| 490 vars = {} | |
| 491 if type(pattern) is ListType: | |
| 492 vars[pattern[0]] = data | |
| 493 return 1, vars | |
| 494 if type(pattern) is not TupleType: | |
| 495 return (pattern == data), vars | |
| 496 if len(data) != len(pattern): | |
| 497 return 0, vars | |
| 498 for pattern, data in map(None, pattern, data): | |
| 499 same, vars = match(pattern, data, vars) | |
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