[Python-Dev] Deprecate parser's "ast" functions?

[Georg Brandl]

The parser module exports each function and type twice, once with "AST" in
the name, once with "ST".  Since "AST" now has a different meaning for
Python code compilation, I propose to deprecate the "ast" variants in 2.6
and remove them in Python 3000.

(Also, all keyword arguments are called "ast", that cannot change in 2.6
but should in 3.0.)

I'm at the moment changing the documentation of parser to only refer to
the "st" variants anymore.

Georg

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