astunparse 1.2.0

An AST unparser for Python

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AST Unparser
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An AST unparser for Python.

This is a factored out version of `unparse` found in the Python
source distribution; under Demo/parser in Python 2 and under Tools/parser
in Python 3.

Basic example::

import inspect
import ast
import astunparse

# get back the source code
astunparse.unparse(ast.parse(inspect.getsource(ast)))

# get a pretty-printed dump of the AST
astunparse.dump(ast.parse(inspect.getsource(ast)))


This library is single-source compatible with Python 2.6 through Python 3.4. It
is authored by the Python core developers; I have simply merged the Python 2.7
and the Python 3.4 source and test suites, and added a wrapper. This factoring
out is to provide a library implementation that supports both versions.

Added to this is a pretty-printing `dump` utility function.

The test suite both runs specific tests and also roundtrips much of the
standard library.

Similar projects include:

* codegen_
* astor_
* astmonkey_
* astprint_

None of these roundtrip much of the standard library and fail several of the basic
tests in the `test_unparse` test suite.

This library uses mature and core maintained code instead of trying to patch
existing libraries. The `unparse` and the `test_unparse` modules
are under the PSF license.

* Documentation: http://astunparse.rtfd.org.

Features
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* unparses Python AST.
* pretty-prints AST.


.. _codegen: https://github.com/andreif/codegen
.. _astor: https://github.com/berkerpeksag/astor
.. _astmonkey: https://github.com/konradhalas/astmonkey
.. _astprint: https://github.com/Manticore/astprint


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Changelog
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Here's the recent changes to AST Unparser.

.. changelog::
:version: 1.2.0
:released: 2014-04-03

.. change::
:tags: general

Now compatible with Python 2.6 through Python 3.4.

.. change::
:tags: general

A new function :func:`dump` is added to return a pretty-printed version
of the AST. It's also available when running `python -m astunparse` as
the `--dump` argument.


.. changelog::
:version: 1.1.0
:released: 2014-04-01

.. change::
:tags: general

:func:`unparse` will return the source code for an AST. It is pretty
feature-complete, and round-trips the stdlib, and is compatible with
Python 2.7 and Python 3.4.

Running `python -m astunparse` will print the round-tripped source for
any python files given as argument.