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Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote in message news:<m3ad3fjoit.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>...

> 
> What happens on the ast-branch (the "new compiler" branch), I'm not so
> sure about.  An AST (AFAIK different from Lib/compiler's) is involved
> somewhere, but I'm not sure how it's produced.
> 

It uses the existing mechanism to generate the parse-tree, and then
transforms into a real AST prior to bytecode generation.  Writing a
new parser-generator has been deferred at this point.