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.TH astroid 3 "28 Apr 2015" "astroid 1.3.6"

.SH NAME

astroid \- Python Abstract Syntax Tree New Generation

.SH DESCRIPTION

The aim of this module is to provide a common base representation of 

python source code for projects such as pychecker, pyreverse, pylint.

It used to be called logilab-astng.

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It provides a compatible representation which comes from the `_ast` module.

It rebuilds the tree generated by the builtin _ast module by recursively

walking down the AST and building an extended ast. The new node classes

have additional methods and attributes for different usages.

They include some support for static inference and local name scopes.

Furthermore, astroid builds partial trees by inspecting living objects.

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Main modules are:

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* `bases`, `node_classses` and `scoped_nodes` contain the classes for the different type of nodes of the tree.

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* the `manager` contains a high level object to get astroid trees from source files and living objects. It maintains a cache of previously constructed tree for quick access

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.SH FILES

.TP 2.2i

.B /usr/lib/python2.7/vendor-packages/astroid

astroid python modules

.SH AUTHORS

Sylvain Thenault ([email protected])

.SH SUPPORT

If you have any questions, please mail the

[email protected] mailing list for support. See

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality for

subscription information and archives. You may find older archives at

http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/python-projects .

.SH SEE ALSO

.IR logilab-common (3),

.IR pylint (1)