[Doc-SIG] looking for prior art

Brett Cannon bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:04:26 -0800 (PST)


[David Goodger]

> So, is there any prior art out there?  Any pointers or advice?
>

How does PyChecker do it?  I would guess by reading the bytecode, but you
never know.

I would guess using regexes would be the best if you just want to read the
source.  The ``tokenize`` module has all the regexes and they might be
available independently from the methods in the module.

-Brett