bpo-35975: Support parsing earlier minor versions of Python 3 (GH-12086)

This adds a `feature_version` flag to `ast.parse()` (documented) and `compile()` (hidden) that allow tweaking the parser to support older versions of the grammar. In particular if `feature_version` is 5 or 6, the hacks for the `async` and `await` keyword from PEP 492 are reinstated. (For 7 or higher, these are unconditionally treated as keywords, but they are still special tokens rather than `NAME` tokens that the parser driver recognizes.)



https://bugs.python.org/issue35975
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Guido van Rossum 2019-03-07 12:38:08 -08:00 committed by Miss Islington (bot)
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commit 495da29225
29 changed files with 476 additions and 201 deletions

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@ -58,14 +58,16 @@ RARROW = 51
ELLIPSIS = 52
COLONEQUAL = 53
OP = 54
TYPE_IGNORE = 55
TYPE_COMMENT = 56
AWAIT = 55
ASYNC = 56
TYPE_IGNORE = 57
TYPE_COMMENT = 58
# These aren't used by the C tokenizer but are needed for tokenize.py
ERRORTOKEN = 57
COMMENT = 58
NL = 59
ENCODING = 60
N_TOKENS = 61
ERRORTOKEN = 59
COMMENT = 60
NL = 61
ENCODING = 62
N_TOKENS = 63
# Special definitions for cooperation with parser
NT_OFFSET = 256