On 10 Nov 2005 16:07:56 -0800, "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bengt Richter wrote: >> I've also posted sporadic musings about the possibilities for >> AST-transforming >> custom import functions to do optimizations and macros and special forms >> etc., >> but no one seemed much interested (or maybe they quietly went off to do >> something of their own ;-) > >For an example of AST transformations, take a look at the >libxml2macro.py script in the libxml2dom distribution [1]: it contains >code which transforms ASTs based on simple rules (changing method calls >to function calls) as well as the magic sequence of instructions to >generate .pyc files from ASTs. Originally, the analysis distribution >[2] also compiled modified ASTs to Python bytecode, but such activities >didn't really fit in with the goals of that particular project. > >Paul > >[1] http://www.python.org/pypi/libxml2dom >[2] http://www.python.org/pypi/analysis > Thanks for the links. I downloaded the tgzs but it will be a while before I get into anything ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
