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Mon Jul 21 16:47:08 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/081478.html

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> The parser module exports each function and type twice, once with "AST" in
> the name, once with "ST".  Since "AST" now has a different meaning for
> Python code compilation, I propose to deprecate the "ast" variants in 2.6
> and remove them in Python 3000.

+1 This personally has confused me!

>
> (Also, all keyword arguments are called "ast", that cannot change in 2.6
> but should in 3.0.)
>
> I'm at the moment changing the documentation of parser to only refer to
> the "st" variants anymore.
>
> Georg

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