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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: abilian-astero
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: astero: declared grammars for ASTs and IRs, and the transformations derived from them.
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+ Keywords: compiler,ast,grammar,transpiler,code-generation
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+ Author: Stefane Fermigier
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+ Author-email: Stefane Fermigier <sf@abilian.com>
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Compilers
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Code Generators
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.11
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+ Project-URL: Documentation, https://astero.lab.abilian.com
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # astero
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+
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+ **Write compilers, transpilers and code analysers without hand-maintaining the tables they depend on.**
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+
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+ Every program that transforms code needs to know the same structural facts about its language: which positions introduce a variable, which read one, which fields a traversal must enter, how tightly each operator binds. Most projects write those facts out by hand, once per pass. They drift. When they drift the symptom is wrong output, not a crash.
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+
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+ astero takes one declaration of your syntax tree and computes those facts on demand. Python's grammar ships with the library, so for Python source there is nothing to declare.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install abilian-astero # or: uv add abilian-astero
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+ ```
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+
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+ The distribution is called **abilian-astero**, because PyPI already had `astero`. The import name is `astero`:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from astero.lang_py import PY, VARS
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+ ```
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+
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+ Python 3.11 through 3.15. No runtime dependencies. Apache-2.0.
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+
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+ ## The problem it solves
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+
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+ Fifteen positions in Python can hold a variable name. Here are four of them:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ def f(x): # a parameter
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+ import os as x # an import alias
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+ try:
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+ pass
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+ except E as x: # an exception name
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+ pass
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+ return [x for x in xs] # a comprehension target
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+ ```
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+
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+ A renamer written with `ast.NodeTransformer` and a `visit_Name` method reaches one. That is not a hypothetical: it is the shape of a defect found in three separate compilers, and none of the three crashed. One never bound `**kwargs`, one inlined a function so that `[99 for 99 in xs]` came out, one set an assignment context by hand and produced JavaScript that computed `NaN` where Python gave `5`.
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+
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+ With astero the list is a query, and the same query serves every pass that needs it:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from astero.hygiene import rename
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+ from astero.lang_py import PY, VARS
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+
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+ rename(tree, {"x": "y"}, PY, VARS) # reaches all fifteen
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+ ```
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+
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+ The set changes between Python releases. Version 3.12 added three positions. Code written against the query follows the language without being edited.
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+
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+ ## What you get
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+
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+ Declare a **role** for each field of each production: whether it introduces a name, refers to one, or holds a subtree. Six modules read that declaration.
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+
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+ | module | what it gives you |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `grammar` | which fields bind a name, which read one, which hold a bare identifier, which a traversal must enter, which productions can appear |
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+ | `rewriting` | tree rewriting from `pattern => result` rules, with every `Name`'s context recomputed for you |
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+ | `scopes` | the scope tree of a module, and the names each scope binds |
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+ | `hygiene` | renaming, and substitution that cannot capture a name |
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+ | `emit_rules` | a code generator written as templates, with brackets derived from a precedence table |
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+ | `coverage` | a test that fails when your dispatch table misses a production |
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+
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+ Add a binding form to your language, edit the declaration, and all six follow.
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+
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+ ### Rewriting, without touching contexts
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+
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+ A rule is one string with `=>` between pattern and replacement:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from astero import Pass, rules
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+
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+ fold = Pass("fold", rules("""
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+ _x + 0 => _x
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+ _x * 1 => _x
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+ """))
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+ ```
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+
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+ Identifiers spelled `_name` are metavariables, `_` matches anything without binding, and `*_xs` splices the rest of a list. Rules never mention `ctx` or source positions, because both are recomputed from the shape of the result. That is what makes the `AugAssign` defect above impossible to write.
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+
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+ ### Your own IR, not just Python's
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+
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+ A grammar carries each production's constructor, so a rewrite builds your node classes. If your AST is generated from CPython's, the whole declaration is one line:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ PRESCRYPT = lang_py.build(module=prescrypt.front.ast.ast, name="prescrypt")
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+ ```
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+
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+ If your IR is annotated dataclasses, `from_dataclasses` reads the fields and sorts off the annotations, leaving you only the roles to write. The [PL/0 tutorial](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/tutorial-pl0/) builds a complete compiler that way, for a language with no relationship to Python.
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+
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+ ## Why you can rely on it
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+
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+ Every derivation is compared against an independent source of truth, over the whole Python standard library, on Python 3.11 through 3.15.
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+
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+ | derived | compared against | result |
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+ | --- | --- | --- |
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+ | assignment contexts | what CPython's parser produces | every position in the standard library, no disagreements |
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+ | scopes and their names | CPython's `symtable` | 99.98% of blocks agree |
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+ | emitted source | reparsing the emitted text | 1,797 modules, 2,266,043 expressions |
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+ | operand positions of an SSA IR | that compiler's own declaration | exact match |
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+
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+ For assignment contexts that is ten authored role entries reconstructing all 1,457,931 positions across the 1,761 files of the 3.13 standard library. The tests hold the ratio, not the number. A regression fails; an improvement does not have to be chased.
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+
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+ The rewrite engine was first validated by reimplementing all six of [latexify_py](https://github.com/google/latexify_py)'s tree transformations as rule sets. Differential testing against the originals found 121 output differences, **every one a latent bug in the hand-written version**.
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+ Three compilers are built on it: a Python-to-C compiler, a Python-to-WebAssembly compiler, and a Python-to-JavaScript transpiler.
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+
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+ ## What astero is not
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+
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+ - **Not a parser.** Bring your own AST. astero starts from a tree.
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+ - **Not a code generator you run.** Nothing is written to disk, and there is no build step. Every entry point is a function call at run time.
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+ - **Not a framework.** It does not own your pipeline, your IR, or your `main`. Adopt one query in one function and leave the rest alone.
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+
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+ Lowering and cost models stay yours. astero answers questions about a declaration; it does not decide what your compiler should do with the answers.
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+
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+ ## Documentation
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+
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+ - **[Getting started](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/getting-started/)**: install it and run three queries against real code.
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+ - **[TinyPy tutorial](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/tutorial/)**: a working compiler for a Python subset, with two back ends, in about 170 lines.
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+ - **[PL/0 tutorial](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/tutorial-pl0/)**: the same, for a language that is not Python.
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+ - **[User guide](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/guides/user-guide/)**: every module, its API, and when to reach for it.
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+ - **[Adopting astero](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/guides/adopting/)**: fitting it into a compiler you already have.
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+ - **[API reference](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/api/grammar/)**: generated from the source.
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+
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+ ## Status
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+
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+ Version 0.1.x. The API may still change between minor versions; the changelog says what moved. Every derivation is checked against CPython on five interpreters, and three compilers are built on it.
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+
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+ ## Development
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ make test # pytest
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+ make lint # ruff, ruff format, ty, pyrefly, zuban, mypy
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+ make docs # build the documentation site
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+ ```
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+
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+ This code is version-sensitive, so a green run on one interpreter says little about the others. `nox` runs the suite on each:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ nox -s tests # 3.11 through 3.15
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+ nox -s check # everything `make lint` runs
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+ ```
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+
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+ Contributions are welcome. `docs/src/guides/developer-guide.md` describes how the library is organised and what a new derivation has to prove before it lands.
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+ # astero
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+
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+ **Write compilers, transpilers and code analysers without hand-maintaining the tables they depend on.**
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+
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+ Every program that transforms code needs to know the same structural facts about its language: which positions introduce a variable, which read one, which fields a traversal must enter, how tightly each operator binds. Most projects write those facts out by hand, once per pass. They drift. When they drift the symptom is wrong output, not a crash.
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+
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+ astero takes one declaration of your syntax tree and computes those facts on demand. Python's grammar ships with the library, so for Python source there is nothing to declare.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install abilian-astero # or: uv add abilian-astero
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+ ```
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+
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+ The distribution is called **abilian-astero**, because PyPI already had `astero`. The import name is `astero`:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from astero.lang_py import PY, VARS
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+ ```
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+
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+ Python 3.11 through 3.15. No runtime dependencies. Apache-2.0.
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+
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+ ## The problem it solves
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+
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+ Fifteen positions in Python can hold a variable name. Here are four of them:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ def f(x): # a parameter
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+ import os as x # an import alias
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+ try:
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+ pass
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+ except E as x: # an exception name
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+ pass
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+ return [x for x in xs] # a comprehension target
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+ ```
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+
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+ A renamer written with `ast.NodeTransformer` and a `visit_Name` method reaches one. That is not a hypothetical: it is the shape of a defect found in three separate compilers, and none of the three crashed. One never bound `**kwargs`, one inlined a function so that `[99 for 99 in xs]` came out, one set an assignment context by hand and produced JavaScript that computed `NaN` where Python gave `5`.
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+
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+ With astero the list is a query, and the same query serves every pass that needs it:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from astero.hygiene import rename
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+ from astero.lang_py import PY, VARS
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+
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+ rename(tree, {"x": "y"}, PY, VARS) # reaches all fifteen
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+ ```
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+
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+ The set changes between Python releases. Version 3.12 added three positions. Code written against the query follows the language without being edited.
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+
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+ ## What you get
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+
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+ Declare a **role** for each field of each production: whether it introduces a name, refers to one, or holds a subtree. Six modules read that declaration.
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+
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+ | module | what it gives you |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `grammar` | which fields bind a name, which read one, which hold a bare identifier, which a traversal must enter, which productions can appear |
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+ | `rewriting` | tree rewriting from `pattern => result` rules, with every `Name`'s context recomputed for you |
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+ | `scopes` | the scope tree of a module, and the names each scope binds |
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+ | `hygiene` | renaming, and substitution that cannot capture a name |
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+ | `emit_rules` | a code generator written as templates, with brackets derived from a precedence table |
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+ | `coverage` | a test that fails when your dispatch table misses a production |
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+
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+ Add a binding form to your language, edit the declaration, and all six follow.
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+
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+ ### Rewriting, without touching contexts
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+
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+ A rule is one string with `=>` between pattern and replacement:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from astero import Pass, rules
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+
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+ fold = Pass("fold", rules("""
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+ _x + 0 => _x
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+ _x * 1 => _x
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+ """))
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+ ```
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+
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+ Identifiers spelled `_name` are metavariables, `_` matches anything without binding, and `*_xs` splices the rest of a list. Rules never mention `ctx` or source positions, because both are recomputed from the shape of the result. That is what makes the `AugAssign` defect above impossible to write.
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+
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+ ### Your own IR, not just Python's
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+
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+ A grammar carries each production's constructor, so a rewrite builds your node classes. If your AST is generated from CPython's, the whole declaration is one line:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ PRESCRYPT = lang_py.build(module=prescrypt.front.ast.ast, name="prescrypt")
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+ ```
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+
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+ If your IR is annotated dataclasses, `from_dataclasses` reads the fields and sorts off the annotations, leaving you only the roles to write. The [PL/0 tutorial](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/tutorial-pl0/) builds a complete compiler that way, for a language with no relationship to Python.
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+
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+ ## Why you can rely on it
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+
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+ Every derivation is compared against an independent source of truth, over the whole Python standard library, on Python 3.11 through 3.15.
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+
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+ | derived | compared against | result |
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+ | --- | --- | --- |
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+ | assignment contexts | what CPython's parser produces | every position in the standard library, no disagreements |
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+ | scopes and their names | CPython's `symtable` | 99.98% of blocks agree |
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+ | emitted source | reparsing the emitted text | 1,797 modules, 2,266,043 expressions |
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+ | operand positions of an SSA IR | that compiler's own declaration | exact match |
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+
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+ For assignment contexts that is ten authored role entries reconstructing all 1,457,931 positions across the 1,761 files of the 3.13 standard library. The tests hold the ratio, not the number. A regression fails; an improvement does not have to be chased.
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+ The rewrite engine was first validated by reimplementing all six of [latexify_py](https://github.com/google/latexify_py)'s tree transformations as rule sets. Differential testing against the originals found 121 output differences, **every one a latent bug in the hand-written version**.
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+ Three compilers are built on it: a Python-to-C compiler, a Python-to-WebAssembly compiler, and a Python-to-JavaScript transpiler.
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+ ## What astero is not
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+ - **Not a parser.** Bring your own AST. astero starts from a tree.
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+ - **Not a code generator you run.** Nothing is written to disk, and there is no build step. Every entry point is a function call at run time.
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+ - **Not a framework.** It does not own your pipeline, your IR, or your `main`. Adopt one query in one function and leave the rest alone.
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+ Lowering and cost models stay yours. astero answers questions about a declaration; it does not decide what your compiler should do with the answers.
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+ ## Documentation
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+ - **[Getting started](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/getting-started/)**: install it and run three queries against real code.
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+ - **[TinyPy tutorial](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/tutorial/)**: a working compiler for a Python subset, with two back ends, in about 170 lines.
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+ - **[PL/0 tutorial](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/tutorial-pl0/)**: the same, for a language that is not Python.
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+ - **[User guide](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/guides/user-guide/)**: every module, its API, and when to reach for it.
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+ - **[Adopting astero](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/guides/adopting/)**: fitting it into a compiler you already have.
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+ - **[API reference](https://astero.lab.abilian.com/api/grammar/)**: generated from the source.
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+ ## Status
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+ Version 0.1.x. The API may still change between minor versions; the changelog says what moved. Every derivation is checked against CPython on five interpreters, and three compilers are built on it.
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+ ## Development
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+ ```bash
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+ make test # pytest
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+ make lint # ruff, ruff format, ty, pyrefly, zuban, mypy
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+ make docs # build the documentation site
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+ ```
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+ This code is version-sensitive, so a green run on one interpreter says little about the others. `nox` runs the suite on each:
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+ ```bash
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+ nox -s tests # 3.11 through 3.15
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+ [project]
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+ name = "abilian-astero"
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+ version = "0.1.0"
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+ description = "astero: declared grammars for ASTs and IRs, and the transformations derived from them."
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+ readme = "README.md"
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+ authors = [
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+ { name = "Stefane Fermigier", email = "sf@abilian.com" }
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+ ]
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+ requires-python = ">=3.11"
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+ dependencies = []
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+ license = "Apache-2.0"
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+ license-files = ["LICENSE"]
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+ keywords = ["compiler", "ast", "grammar", "transpiler", "code-generation"]
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+ classifiers = [
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+ "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
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+ "Intended Audience :: Developers",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
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+ "Topic :: Software Development :: Compilers",
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+ "Topic :: Software Development :: Code Generators",
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+ "Typing :: Typed",
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+ ]
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+
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+ [project.urls]
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+ Documentation = "https://astero.lab.abilian.com"
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+
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+
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+ [build-system]
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+ requires = ["uv_build>=0.11.33,<0.12.0"]
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+ build-backend = "uv_build"
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+
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+ [tool.uv.build-backend]
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+ # The distribution is `abilian-astero` because PyPI would not give up
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+ # `astero`, but the import name is and stays `astero`. Without this the
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+ # backend derives the module path from the project name and looks for
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+ # `src/abilian_astero/`.
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+ module-name = "astero"
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+
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+ [dependency-groups]
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+ docs = [
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+ # Zensical's published versions are 0.0.x, and it needs a recent Python.
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+ # This project's floor is 3.11, so the group is marked rather than pinned:
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+ # `make docs` on an older interpreter is the only thing it affects.
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+ "zensical>=0.0.54; python_version >= '3.13' and python_version < '3.15'",
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+ # The API reference is generated from the source's own docstrings, so it
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+ # cannot drift. Zensical shims the mkdocs plugin.
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+ "mkdocstrings[python]>=0.27; python_version >= '3.13' and python_version < '3.15'",
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+ ]
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+ # What running the suite needs, and nothing else. Separate from `dev`
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+ # because the version matrix installs it on every supported interpreter, and
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+ # `pre-commit` pulls in `pyyaml`, which does not build on 3.15.
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+ test = [
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+ "pytest>=9.1.1",
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+ "pytest-cov>=7.1.0",
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+ ]
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+ dev = [
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+ { include-group = "test" },
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+ # postpile's own dependency, and the only thing standing between the SSA
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+ # oracles and running. It does not make postpile a dependency: those
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+ # tests still locate a checkout (`POSTPILE_SRC`, or a sibling directory)
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+ # and skip when there is none. Without this they skipped on the import
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+ # instead, so the oracle never ran and nothing said so.
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+ "postyp>=0.3.0",
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+ "mypy>=2.3.0",
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+ "nox>=2026.7.11",
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+ "pre-commit>=4.6.1",
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+ "pyrefly>=1.2.0",
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+ "ruff>=0.16.2",
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+ "ty>=0.0.69",
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+ "zuban>=0.9.1",
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+ # tepyd needs 3.12; this project's floor is 3.11, so the marker keeps the
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+ # lock resolvable there. Same shape as the `docs` group's zensical pin.
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+ "tepyd; python_version >= '3.12'",
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+ ]
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+
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+ [tool.pytest.ini_options]
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+ testpaths = ["tests"]
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+ markers = [
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+ "unit: fast, isolated unit tests",
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+ "integration: component-interaction tests",
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+ "e2e: end-to-end tests",
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+ ]
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+
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+ [tool.ty.environment]
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+ # The two worked examples are standalone programs, not packages: their modules
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+ # import each other by bare name (`import syntax`), and the tests put the
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+ # directory on `sys.path` to run them. That is the shape a reader copies, so
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+ # the type checker is told where to look rather than the examples being made
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+ # into packages nobody would write.
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+ extra-paths = ["examples/pl0", "examples/tinypy"]
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+
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+
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+ [tool.mypy]
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+ # zuban reads mypy's configuration. `mypy_path` is the same fact as
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+ # `[tool.ty.environment] extra-paths` and pyrefly's `search-path`: the worked
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+ # examples import each other by bare name. `make lint` runs mypy over `src`
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+ # only, so this changes nothing for it and everything for zuban.
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+ mypy_path = "src:examples/pl0:examples/tinypy"
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+
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+ [[tool.mypy.overrides]]
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+ # zuban reads `operator.mod` as returning `None`, which typeshed does not
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+ # say and mypy does not agree with. Scoped to the one rule and the one
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+ # module rather than worked around in the code.
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+ module = ["vm"]
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+ disable_error_code = ["dict-item"]
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+
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+ [tool.pyrefly]
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+ project-includes = [
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+ "**/*.py*",
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+ "**/*.ipynb",
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+ ]
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+ # Same reason as `[tool.ty.environment]` above: the worked examples are
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+ # standalone programs whose modules import each other by bare name.
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+ search-path = ["src", "examples/pl0", "examples/tinypy"]
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+
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+ [tool.tepyd]
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+ # Generated by `tepyd init` — review and adjust.
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+ src_root = "src/astero"
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+ src_package = "astero"
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+ units = ["*.py"]
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+ # counter = "internal" # or "cloc"
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+
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+ # Source units to exclude from analysis (a reason is required):
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+ # [tool.tepyd.exclude]
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+ # faker = "why this is not tested"
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+
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+ # Tiers, cheapest first. Add `expects = [...]` to a tier to scope it to
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+ # the source units it should test (glob patterns over unit names); units
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+ # outside the scope are reported n/a, not as gaps. Use it when layers map
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+ # to tiers — e.g. integration `expects = ["repositories/*", "infra/*"]`,
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+ # e2e `expects = ["web/*"]`. Omit it and the tier is checked against all.
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+
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+ [[tool.tepyd.tiers]]
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+ name = "a_unit"
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+ root = "tests/a_unit"
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+ label = "unit"
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+ target_share = 0.6
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+
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+ [[tool.tepyd.tiers]]
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+ name = "b_integration"
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+ root = "tests/b_integration"
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+ label = "integration"
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+
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+ [[tool.tepyd.tiers]]
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+ name = "c_e2e"
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+ root = "tests/c_e2e"
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+ label = "e2e"