Add ast.Constant

Issue #26146: Add a new kind of AST node: ast.Constant. It can be used by
external AST optimizers, but the compiler does not emit directly such node.

An optimizer can replace the following AST nodes with ast.Constant:

* ast.NameConstant: None, False, True
* ast.Num: int, float, complex
* ast.Str: str
* ast.Bytes: bytes
* ast.Tuple if items are constants too: tuple
* frozenset

Update code to accept ast.Constant instead of ast.Num and/or ast.Str:

* compiler
* docstrings
* ast.literal_eval()
* Tools/parser/unparse.py
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Victor Stinner 2016-01-26 00:40:57 +01:00
parent 0dceb91866
commit f2c1aa1661
14 changed files with 401 additions and 44 deletions

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@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ __all__ = [
# See the EBNF at the top of the file to understand the logical connection
# between the various node types.
builtin_types = {'identifier', 'string', 'bytes', 'int', 'object', 'singleton'}
builtin_types = {'identifier', 'string', 'bytes', 'int', 'object', 'singleton',
'constant'}
class AST:
def __repr__(self):