syntax difference

[Gregory Ewing]

Bart wrote:
> I can remove comments by writing a tokeniser which scans Python source 
> and re-outputs tokens one at a time. Such a tokeniser normally ignores 
> comments.

What was being talked about wasn't removing *all* comments,
but removing just the ones that contain type hints.

> But to remove type hints, a deeper understanding of the input is needed. 
> I would need a parser rather than a tokeniser.

Fortunately, Python comes with a parser for Python built
in (the ast module). So you get quite a good head start.

-- 
Greg