compiler¶
Package for parsing and compiling Python source code
There are several functions defined at the top level that are imported from modules contained in the package.
- parse(buf, mode=”exec”) -> AST
- Converts a string containing Python source code to an abstract syntax tree (AST). The AST is defined in compiler.ast.
- parseFile(path) -> AST
- The same as parse(open(path))
- walk(ast, visitor, verbose=None)
- Does a pre-order walk over the ast using the visitor instance. See compiler.visitor for details.
- compile(source, filename, mode, flags=None, dont_inherit=None)
- Returns a code object. A replacement for the builtin compile() function.
- compileFile(filename)
- Generates a .pyc file by compiling filename.