As the doc string for _lookupName() explains:
This routine uses a list instead of a dictionary, because a
dictionary can't store two different keys if the keys have the
same value but different types, e.g. 2 and 2L. The compiler
must treat these two separately, so it does an explicit type
comparison before comparing the values.
Avoid if/elif/elif/else tests where the final else is supposed to
handle exactly one case instead of all other cases. When the list of
operators is extended, the catchall else treats all new operators as
the last operator in the set of tests. Instead, raise an exception if
an unexpected operator occurs.
Use a dictionary instead of a list to map objects to their offsets in
a const/name tuple of a code object.
XXX The conversion is perhaps incomplete, in that we shouldn't have to
do the list2dict to start.
Add support for floor division (// and //=)
The implementation of getChildren() and getChildNodes() is intended to
be faster, because it avoids calling flatten() on every return value.
But it's not clear that it is a lot faster, because constructing a
tuple with just the right values ends up being slow. (Too many
attribute lookups probably.)
The ast.txt file is much more complicated, with funny characters at
the ends of names (*, &, !) to indicate the types of each child node.
The astgen script is also much more complex, making me wonder if it's
still useful.
64-bit INTs on 32-bit boxes (where they become longs). Also exploit that
int(str) and long(str) will ignore a trailing newline (saves creating a
new string at the Python level).
pickletester.py: Simulate reading a pickle produced by a 64-bit box.
don't use getattr, but only look in the dict of the type and base types.
This prevents picking up all sorts of weird stuff, including things defined
by the metaclass when the object is a class (type).
For this purpose, a helper function lookup_method() was added. One or two
other places also use this.
varnames should list all the local variables (with arguments first).
The XXX_NAME ops typically occur at the module level and assignment
ops should create locals.
(Hard to believe these were never handled before)
Add misc.mangle() that mangles based on the rules in compile.c.
XXX Need to test the corner cases
Update CodeGenerator with a class_name attribute bound to None. If a
particular instance is created within a class scope, the instance's
class_name is bound to that class's name.
Add mangle() method to CodeGenerator that mangles if the class_name
has a class_name in it.
Modify the FunctionCodeGenerator family to handle an extra argument--
the class_name.
Wrap all name ops and attrnames in calls to self.mangle()
Make nested scopes enabled by default
Add is_constant_false() helper so that compiled code and symbols are
consistent with builtin compiler's handling of "if 0:"
Fix doc string handling to be consistent with recent change that
eliminates the doc string from the Module's node attribute.
Add fix to print handling from Evan & Shane.
Track change to visitor api by making "verbose" explicit.
Comment out setting CO_NESTED flag (it's unnecessary in 2.2).
Jeremy Hylton
Guido van Rossum
Jack Jansen
Fred Drake
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Andrew M. Kuchling
Eric S. Raymond