18.1.3 Queries on AST Objects
Two functions are provided which allow an application to determine if an AST was created as an expression or a suite. Neither of these functions can be used to determine if an AST was created from source code via expr() or suite() or from a parse tree via sequence2ast().
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When ast represents an
'eval'form, this function returns true, otherwise it returns false. This is useful, since code objects normally cannot be queried for this information using existing built-in functions. Note that the code objects created by compileast() cannot be queried like this either, and are identical to those created by the built-in compile() function.
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This function mirrors isexpr() in that it reports whether an
AST object represents an
'exec'form, commonly known as a ``suite.'' It is not safe to assume that this function is equivalent to "not isexpr(ast)", as additional syntactic fragments may be supported in the future.
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Release 2.4, documentation updated on 29 November 2004.