[Python-ideas] AST Pretty Printer

[Haoyi Li]

I would be interested in it; would have made developing macropy much easier
if there was a way to nicely print large blobs of AST (i.e. nicer than
ast.dump).


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I always encounter one problem when dealing with Python ASTs: When I print
> it, it looks like Lisp(aka Lots of Irritated Superfluous Parenthesis). In
> short: it's a mess.
>
> My idea is an AST pretty printer built on ast.NodeVisitor. If anyone finds
> this interesting, I can probably have a prototype of the class between
> later today and sometime tomorrow.
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