[Docutils-develop] Re: [Doc-SIG] looking for prior art

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Brett Cannon wrote:

> [David Goodger]
>
> > So, is there any prior art out there?  Any pointers or advice?
> >
>
> How does PyChecker do it?  I would guess by reading the bytecode, but you
> never know.
>
> I would guess using regexes would be the best if you just want to read the
> source.  The ``tokenize`` module has all the regexes and they might be
> available independently from the methods in the module.

from ancient times when i did crossreferencing on modula or later pretty
printing newtonscript. i have to things on mind:
* when using regexes nultiline statements are not so easy.
* when using a lexer, association with the line might get
  lost (the lexer would probably merge the lines)
but whome do i tell this david, you should know more than i ever will
after parsing reST.

what is the intention:
* read doc-strings
* pretty print
* check the code
* reformat the code


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