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+The aim of this module is to provide a common base representation of python
+source code for projects such as pychecker, pyreverse, pylint... Well, actually
+the development of this library is essentially governed by pylint's needs. It
+used to be called logilab-astng.
+
+It provides a compatible representation which comes from the _ast module. It
+rebuilds the tree generated by the builtin _ast module by recursively walking
+down the AST and building an extended ast. The new node classes have additional
+methods and attributes for different usages. They include some support for
+static inference and local name scopes. Furthermore, astroid builds partial
+trees by inspecting living objects.
+
+WWW: https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid