[issue40430] ast.Slice is no longer a subclass of ast.slice

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Even if make ast.Slice a (virtual) subclass of ast.slice it will not help much, because we cannot do it for ast.Index and ast.ExtSlice. ast.ExtSlice is not replaced with ast.Tuple, and any node type can now be used instead of ast.Index. The code that does

[issue40430] ast.Slice is no longer a subclass of ast.slice

Irit Katriel added the comment: Looks like the answer is: it is a deliberate change, not a bug. Should this issue be closed? -- components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker _

[issue40430] ast.Slice is no longer a subclass of ast.slice

Batuhan Taskaya added the comment: This has been discussee and rejected (for certain reasonsons): https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19056#discussion_r396087689 -- nosy: +BTaskaya, serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker

[issue40430] ast.Slice is no longer a subclass of ast.slice

New submission from Anthony Sottile : unclear if this is intentional or not, I noticed this while seeing that `ast.Subscript.slice` is no longer `Index` / `Slice` / `ExtSlice` # python3.8 >>> isinstance(ast.Slice(), ast.slice) True # python3.9a6 >>> isinstance(ast.Slice(), ast.slice) False