In this article Alessandro provides an overview of Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), introduces a few use-cases, and showcases the ast module in the Python Standard Library. The content is structured in a top-down fashion, starting from general notion about an AST, and digging deeper up to the point of artificially manipulating an AST to “randomize” the content of some instructions.
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There is More Than One Way to Solve a Bite Exercise
By Harrison Morgan on 21 August 2020
According to the Zen of Python, “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.” It’s a good principle for designing a program: the more ways there are of doing something, the more confusing the software becomes, along with a host of other problems. In reality, though, there almost always is more than one way to accomplish something. The quotation even displays this fact: it places the dash in two different ways, neither of which are the obvious way.