An AST (abstract syntax tree) pretty printer for Python 🐍.
$ pip install pprintast
usage: pprintast.py [-h] [-a] [-c cmd] [-m mode] [-t] [-v] [file]
A pretty-printing dump function for the ast module. The code was copied from the ast.dump function
and modified slightly to pretty-print.
positional arguments:
file program passed in as file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a, --attributes include attributes such as line numbers and column offsets
-c cmd, --command cmd program passed in as string
-m mode, --mode mode compilation mode (choices: exec, eval, single) (default: exec)
-t, --terse terse output by disabling field annotations
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
Pretty print AST from a file using the pprintast CLI.
$ pprintast "./path/to/script.py"Pretty print AST from a string using the pprintast CLI.
$ pprintast -c "lambda a: a**2"Pretty print AST from a string using the pprintast module.
# 1. import the "pprintast" function.
from pprintast import pprintast as ppast # OR: from pprintast import ppast
# 2. pretty print AST from a "string".
exp = "lambda a: a**2"
ppast(exp)
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