The 'gx' and 'mv' variables

[Gearoid Murphy]

shared.py contains variables called _gx and _mv, I see references to them scattered across the code, can anyone provide more context on their meaning?

Thanks.

[Jérémie Roquet]

Hi Gearoid,

2012/8/27 Gearoid Murphy <gearoid....@gmail.com>:

> shared.py contains variables called _gx and _mv, I see references to them
> scattered across the code, can anyone provide more context on their meaning?

_mv is the moduleVisitor currently in use. moduleVisitor is a derived
class from the standard ASTVisitor class, which implements the
“Visitor” design pattern. Its role is to handle the parsing of the
Python code in a module. You may want to read the documentation of the
compiler module¹ to understand how it works.

_gx is the globalInfo. Its attributes are very loosely related. Well,
one could say they are not related at all, actually ;-) See it as a
bunch of global variables.

Hope this helps, best regards,

¹ http://docs.python.org/library/compiler.html

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Jérémie

[Jérémie Roquet]

2012/8/27 Jérémie Roquet <arka...@gmail.com>:
> 2012/8/27 Gearoid Murphy <gearoid....@gmail.com>:

> Its role is to handle the parsing of the Python code in a module.

Err. I mean: not the parsing per se; it handles the /result/ of the
parsing (the abstract syntax tree).

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Jérémie

[Gearoid Murphy]

Ah, I see, thanks for the insight.