libcst 1.8.6

A concrete syntax tree with AST-like properties for Python 3.0 through 3.14 programs.

Stars: 1850, Watchers: 1850, Forks: 222, Open Issues: 163

The Instagram/LibCST repo was created 6 years ago and the last code push was 3 weeks ago.
The project is very popular with an impressive 1850 github stars!

How to Install libcst

You can install libcst using pip

pip install libcst

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add libcst

Package Details

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License

All contributions towards LibCST are MIT licensed.

    Some Python files have been derived from the standard library and are therefore
    PSF licensed. Modifications on these files are dual licensed (both MIT and
    PSF). These files are:
    
    - libcst/_parser/base_parser.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/utils.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/pgen2/generator.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/pgen2/grammar_parser.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/python/py_token.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/python/tokenize.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/tests/test_fstring.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/tests/test_tokenize.py
    - libcst/_parser/parso/tests/test_utils.py
    - native/libcst/src/tokenizer/core/mod.rs
    - native/libcst/src/tokenizer/core/string_types.rs
    
    Some Python files have been taken from dataclasses and are therefore Apache
    licensed. Modifications on these files are licensed under Apache 2.0 license.
    These files are:
    
    - libcst/_add_slots.py
    
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PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/libcst/

Documentation:

https://libcst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/Instagram/LibCST

Classifiers

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Errors

A list of common libcst errors.

Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The libcst package has 163 open issues on GitHub

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