Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment:

OK, I missed the fact that the new optimisation pass isn't run under 
PyCF_ONLY_AST.

However, as Eugene picked up, my concern is actually with the collapsing of 
Str/Num/Bytes/Ellipsis into the new Lit node, and the changes to the way 
None/True/False are handled. They're all changes that *make sense*, but would 
also likely cause a variety of AST manipulations to break. We definitely don't 
care when bytecode hacks break, but providing the ast module means that AST 
manipulation is officially supported.

However, the reason I bring up new constructs, is the fact that new constructs 
may break AST manipulation passes, even if the old structures are left intact - 
the AST visitor may miss (or misinterpret) things because it doesn't understand 
the meaning of the new nodes.

We may need to take this one back to python-dev (and get input from the other 
implementations as well). It's a fairly fundamental question when it comes to 
the structure of any changes.

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