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  Turning an AST node / subnodes into something human-readable Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 14:58 +1100
    Re: Turning an AST node / subnodes into something human-readable Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-19 09:05 +0100
      Re: Turning an AST node / subnodes into something human-readable Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 19:44 +1100

#66664 — Turning an AST node / subnodes into something human-readable

I'm working with the ast module to do some analysis on Python
codebases, and once I've found what I'm looking for, I want to print
something out. The file name I'm hanging onto externally, so that
works; and the nodes all have a lineno. So far so good. But how do I
"reconstitute" a subtree into something fit for human consumption?

Take this cut-down example:

module = ast.parse("x[1] = 345+456")
assign = list(ast.walk(module))[1]
destination = assign.targets[0]

At this point, destination is the subtree representing what's being
assigned to. I can get a verbose dump of that:

>>> print(ast.dump(destination))
Subscript(value=Name(id='x', ctx=Load()), slice=Index(value=Num(n=1)),
ctx=Store())

but what I'd really like to do is get something that looks
approximately like "x[1]". Is there an easy way to do that? Its str
and repr aren't useful, and I can't see a "reconstitute" method on the
node, nor a function in ast itself for the job. In theory I could
write one, but it'd need to understand every node type, so it seems
the most logical place would be on the node itself - maybe in __str__.

Is there anything nice and easy? I don't care if it's not perfect, as
long as it's more readable than ast.dump(). :)

ChrisA

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#66673

On 19-2-2014 4:58, Chris Angelico wrote:

> but what I'd really like to do is get something that looks
> approximately like "x[1]". Is there an easy way to do that? Its str
> and repr aren't useful, and I can't see a "reconstitute" method on the
> node, nor a function in ast itself for the job. In theory I could
> write one, but it'd need to understand every node type, so it seems
> the most logical place would be on the node itself - maybe in __str__.
> 
> Is there anything nice and easy? I don't care if it's not perfect, as
> long as it's more readable than ast.dump(). :)
> 

Maybe this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astor can do what you want?
(found it by following a few links starting from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/768634/python-parse-a-py-file-read-the-ast-modify-it-then-write-back-the-modified)

Irmen

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#66675

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 19-2-2014 4:58, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> but what I'd really like to do is get something that looks
>> approximately like "x[1]". Is there an easy way to do that? Its str
>> and repr aren't useful, and I can't see a "reconstitute" method on the
>> node, nor a function in ast itself for the job. In theory I could
>> write one, but it'd need to understand every node type, so it seems
>> the most logical place would be on the node itself - maybe in __str__.
>>
>> Is there anything nice and easy? I don't care if it's not perfect, as
>> long as it's more readable than ast.dump(). :)
>>
>
> Maybe this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astor can do what you want?
> (found it by following a few links starting from
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/768634/python-parse-a-py-file-read-the-ast-modify-it-then-write-back-the-modified)
>

Hmm. I saw a few (things like codegen), but was hoping to stick to the
standard library - introducing a dependency in a small script just for
the sake of tidy output is a bit messy. Oh well. Some things just
aren't as ideal as I'd like. Thanks Irmen!

ChrisA

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