Very fair points. For general purpose ASTs from Python your design should be more efficient while essentially keeping the existing interface. When I referenced

Very fair points. For general purpose ASTs from Python your design should be more efficient while essentially keeping the existing interface. When I referenced numpy, I was thinking of a query layer which could push traversal into the extension as well. Something that could have given me “.select(ast.Import).all()”, which in my head is kind of like doing a filtered sum in numpy. Very cool to get your thoughts on this, thanks for making an account :)