[Python-ideas] Could the ast module's ASTs preserve source_length in addition to lineno and col_offset?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 31 May 2013 20:00, "Haoyi Li" <haoyi.sg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok, I'll give it a shot; I'm not familiar with the python codebase or
build process, but i'll puzzle it out. Where's the place to go for help
related to this sort of thing? python-dev?

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Cheers,
Nick.

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> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 31 May 2013 14:28, "Haoyi Li" <haoyi.sg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Anyone else have any thoughts about this? This seems like it would be
a pretty straightforward thing to do, and I would be happy to go through
the code and submit a patch. The only question is whether we want to do it
in the first place; are there any reasons it can't/shouldn't be done that
I'm not aware of?
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>> Seems reasonable to me, but would need to see a patch to give a definite
yes or no.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
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>> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:
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>> >> On 30/05/13 10:04, Haoyi Li wrote:
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>> >>> I don't need to keep the source code, I just need a single integer
for each
>> >>> node. I would then be able to reconstruct the source snippet.
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>> >>
>> >> And so you did say. Sorry for the noise.
>> >>
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