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| 3 % Copyright 1995 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | |
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| 6 % of the Python distribution. No fee may be charged for this document | |
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16 \modulesynopsis{Access parse trees for Python source code.} |
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21 \index{parsing!Python source code} |
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23 The \module{parser} module provides an interface to Python's internal |
| 3198 | 24 parser and byte-code compiler. The primary purpose for this interface |
| 25 is to allow Python code to edit the parse tree of a Python expression | |
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29 forming the application. It is also faster. |
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| 31 There are a few things to note about this module which are important | |
| 32 to making use of the data structures created. This is not a tutorial | |
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| 37 by the internal parser is required. For full information on the | |
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40 \file{Grammar/Grammar} in the standard Python distribution. The parse |
| 7607 | 41 trees stored in the AST objects created by this module are the |
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44 objects created by \function{sequence2ast()} faithfully simulate those |
| 4084 | 45 structures. Be aware that the values of the sequences which are |
| 46 considered ``correct'' will vary from one version of Python to another | |
| 47 as the formal grammar for the language is revised. However, | |
| 48 transporting code from one Python version to another as source text | |
| 49 will always allow correct parse trees to be created in the target | |
| 50 version, with the only restriction being that migrating to an older | |
| 51 version of the interpreter will not support more recent language | |
| 52 constructs. The parse trees are not typically compatible from one | |
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| 59 one. The first element is an integer which identifies a production in | |
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| 4084 | 63 a component of the production as recognized in the input string: these |
| 64 are always sequences which have the same form as the parent. An | |
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| 4084 | 71 variable and function names defined by the user. In an alternate form |
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| 331 >>> a = 5 | |
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| 342 >>> ast = parser.expr('a + 5') | |
| 343 >>> code = parser.compileast(ast) | |
| 344 >>> a = 5 | |
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| 4084 | 378 level function and class definitions provided by a module. The |
| 379 classes extract information from the parse tree and provide access to | |
| 380 the information at a useful semantic level, one function provides a | |
| 381 simple low-level pattern matching capability, and the other function | |
| 382 defines a high-level interface to the classes by handling file | |
| 383 operations on behalf of the caller. All source files mentioned here | |
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| 401 read and understand the formal grammar used by Python. This is | |
| 402 specified in the file \file{Grammar/Grammar} in the distribution. | |
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| 418 >>> import pprint | |
| 419 >>> ast = parser.suite(open('docstring.py').read()) | |
| 420 >>> tup = parser.ast2tuple(ast) | |
| 421 >>> pprint.pprint(tup) | |
| 422 (257, | |
| 423 (264, | |
| 424 (265, | |
| 425 (266, | |
| 426 (267, | |
| 427 (307, | |
| 428 (287, | |
| 429 (288, | |
| 430 (289, | |
| 431 (290, | |
| 432 (292, | |
| 433 (293, | |
| 434 (294, | |
| 435 (295, | |
| 436 (296, | |
| 437 (297, | |
| 438 (298, | |
| 439 (299, | |
| 440 (300, (3, '"""Some documentation.\012"""'))))))))))))))))), | |
| 441 (4, ''))), | |
| 442 (4, ''), | |
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| 447 types; they map directly to terminal and non-terminal symbols in the | |
| 448 grammar. Unfortunately, they are represented as integers in the | |
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| 452 from the integers to the symbolic names for the node types. | |
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| 455 elements: the integer \code{257} and three additional tuples. Node | |
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| 458 integers, \code{264}, \code{4}, and \code{0}, represent the node types | |
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| 462 you are using; consult \file{symbol.py} and \file{token.py} for | |
| 463 details of the mapping. It should be fairly clear that the outermost | |
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| 4084 | 466 node is much more interesting. In particular, all docstrings are |
| 467 found in subtrees which are formed exactly as this node is formed, | |
| 468 with the only difference being the string itself. The association | |
| 469 between the docstring in a similar tree and the defined entity (class, | |
| 470 function, or module) which it describes is given by the position of | |
| 471 the docstring subtree within the tree defining the described | |
| 472 structure. | |
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| 486 | |
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| 488 if vars is None: | |
| 489 vars = {} | |
| 490 if type(pattern) is ListType: | |
| 491 vars[pattern[0]] = data | |
| 492 return 1, vars | |
| 493 if type(pattern) is not TupleType: | |
| 494 return (pattern == data), vars | |
| 495 if len(data) != len(pattern): | |
| 496 return 0, vars | |
| 497 for pattern, data in map(None, pattern, data): | |
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