Better way of getting parsed Python rather than an AST?

[Kenneth McDonald]

Can anyone recommend something which will do one of the
following:

1) Parse a Python file into an "object-oriented" syntax
tree of some sort (eg. with function definitions represented
by a "FunDef" class, etc.)

or

2) Take an AST as produced by the Python AST module, and
convert it into a "friendlier" form. Unless I'm missing something,
the builtin AST representation seems somewhat, um, low-level.

I try to check the newsgroup regularly, but email as well as
a posting response would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken McDonald
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[Kenneth McDonald]

2) Take an AST as produced by the Python AST module, and convert it
into a "friendlier" form. Unless I'm missing something, the builtin
AST representation seems somewhat, um, low-level.

Use the `compiler' module, standard in Python 2.3. It has tiny problems,
but overall, it is fairly useful.