Given an AST, is there a working library for getting the source?
Is there a way to convert a given Python abstract syntax tree (AST) to a source code? Here is a good example of how to use Python's ast module, specifically a NodeTransformer . I was looking for a way to convert the resulting AST back to source, so the changes can be inspected visually. Ned Batchelder The Python source tree contains an implementation of this: unparse.py in the Demo/parser directory: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Tools/parser/unparse.py Have a look at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sourcecodegen/0.6.14 A nice third-party library I found: astunparse which is based