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ast — Abstract Syntax Trees — Python 3.12.1 documentation
ast2json · PyPI
json2ast · PyPI
Here is an example that does full "round-trip"
python code text => ast => json => ast => code text
import ast
import json
from ast2json import ast2json
from json2ast import json2ast
code_text="""
def hello(name):
print("Hello ", name)
hello('World')
"""
print('=== code text ===\n', code_text)
ast_from_code=ast.parse(code_text)
print('=== ast from code ===\n', ast.dump(ast_from_code, indent=4))
json_from_ast = ast2json(ast_from_code)
print('=== json from ast ===\n', json.dumps(json_from_ast, indent=2))
ast_from_json = json2ast(json_from_ast)
print('=== ast from json ===\n', ast.dump(ast_from_json, indent=4))
code_from_ast = ast.unparse(ast_from_json)
print('=== code from ast ===\n', code_from_ast)
interesting: after "round-trip" double quotes from "Hello" from print statement are converted to single quotes. Python "likes" single quotes more :)
