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Python Language Services<a class="headerlink" href="#python-language-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>Python provides a number of modules to assist in working with the Python language. These modules support tokenizing, parsing, syntax analysis, bytecode disassembly, and various other facilities.</p> <p>These modules include:</p> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="parser.html">31.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parser</span></tt> — Access Python parse trees</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="parser.html#creating-st-objects">31.1.1. Creating ST Objects</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="parser.html#converting-st-objects">31.1.2. Converting ST Objects</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="parser.html#queries-on-st-objects">31.1.3. 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