Sylvain Thénault on ASTroid

The Python Podcast.__init__

• Episode: Sylvain Thénault on ASTroid
• Website: The Python Podcast.__init__
• Feed URL: https://www.podcastinit.com/feed/mp3/
• Duration: 00:47:28
• Published: 2015-12-12 03:04

The Python AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) is a powerful abstraction that allows for a number of innovative projects. ASTroid is a library that provides additional convenience methods to simplify working with the AST. In this episode we spoke with Sylvain Thénault from Logilab about his work on ASTroid and how it is used to power the popular PyLint static analysis tool.