typed-astunparse 2.1.4

Why this module was created

The built-in ast module can parse Python source code into AST but it can’t generate source code from the AST. The astunparse module (using a refactored version of an obscure script found in official Python repository) provides code generation capability for native Python AST.

However, both ast and astunparse modules completely ignore type comments introduced in PEP 484. They treat them like all other comments, so when you parse the code using compile(), your type comments will be lost. There is no place for them in the AST, so obviously they also cannot be unparsed.

The typed-ast module provides an updated AST including type comments defined in PEP 484 and a parser for Python code that contains such comments.

Unfortunately, typed-ast doesn’t provide any means to go from AST back to source code with type comments. This is why module typed-astunparse (i.e. this one) was created: to provide unparser for AST defined in typed-ast.

Usage

Example of roundtrip from code through AST to code:

import typed_ast.ast3
import typed_astunparse

code = 'my_string = None  # type: str'
roundtrip = typed_astunparse.unparse(typed_ast.ast3.parse(code))
print(roundtrip)

This will print:

my_string = None  # type: str

for more examples see examples.ipynb notebook.

Installation

For simplest installation use pip:

pip3 install typed-astunparse

You can also build your own version:

git clone https://github.com/mbdevpl/typed-astunparse
cd typed-astunparse
pip3 install -U test_requirements.txt
python3 -m unittest  # make sure the tests pass
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
pip3 install dist/*.whl

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