Tobias Müller wrote: > I'm facing an issue with NodeTransformer, a tool used for Python AST > manipulations. > > Last week I posted on stackoverflow.com, but there are no responses yet. > Maybe someone reading the mailing list can have a look and leave me a > response here or over there? > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18275662/python-nodetransformer-how-to- remove-nodes
As Chris says, you are overriding too much of the generic behaviour. Here is a working demo: import ast class MyTransformer(ast.NodeTransformer): def visit_For(self, node): """ For nodes: replace with nothing """ print("removing a For node") return None source = """ l = [0, 1, 2, 3] total = 0 for i in l: total += i print(total) """ transformer = MyTransformer() module = ast.parse(source) transformer.visit(module) codeobj = compile(module, '<string>', 'exec') exec(codeobj) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list