30.1.5 AST Objects

30.1.5 AST Objects

Ordered and equality comparisons are supported between AST objects. Pickling of AST objects (using the pickle module) is also supported.

ASTType: The type of the objects returned by expr(), suite() and sequence2ast().

AST objects have the following methods:

compile( [filename]): Same as compileast(ast, filename).

isexpr( ): Same as isexpr(ast).

issuite( ): Same as issuite(ast).

tolist( [line_info]): Same as ast2list(ast, line_info).

totuple( [line_info]): Same as ast2tuple(ast, line_info).

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