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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Lprint = ( Lisp-style printing ( of lists and strings (etc.) ) in
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:42:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:38:07 -0000 (UTC), Sebastian Wells wrote:

> Unlike Lisp,
> there's no reader that will give you the original structure from its
> string representation without having to also evaluate it as code.

If that means what I think it means, it’s wrong. You can indeed compile 
Python source to AST form without going all the way to bytecode.