Add Comment node (for code generation purposes)

[inklesspen]

Although the AST does not include a Comment node, it is frequently a good idea to insert comments into generated code. It's possible to wrap textual comments in a string instead, but it doesn't look as nice.

I've been experimenting and it looks like it should be feasible to add a custom Comment node (inheriting from ast.Expr, possibly).

The really interesting bit is when you allow the Comment's value to be not just strings, but other AST nodes. In this case you could generate syntactically-valid and properly indented commented-out code.

I've got this working for single line statements and I think I can do it for multiple line blocks like function definitions as well. However, before I go further I want to be sure something like this would be accepted into the project.

[pmaupin]

Sounds like an awesome idea to me!

[berkerpeksag]

+1! Please send a pull request :)

[pmaupin]

Closing for now; anyone who really wants the comments is welcome to re-open and work on the pull.

[berkerpeksag]

I think this should be left open. There might be someone out there who are looking for an issue to contribute to an open source project and it's not easy to find closed issues on GitHub.

[pmaupin]

I've added an example of how to do this in PR #75. So we should possibly document it, but I think the code is done.

[mathben]

The solution seems here : 4a152b8