From 02af970fcf4b5515213bc7fd32f5953a477ccfaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dvermd <315743+dvermd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:37:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] document code generation

---
 DEVELOPMENT.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT.md b/DEVELOPMENT.md
index 26926b1960..f5df2a32f1 100644
--- a/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -191,6 +191,14 @@ the Rust code used to represent different Python objects and their methods. The
 core implementation of what a Python object is can be found in
 `vm/src/pyobjectrc.rs`.
 
+### Code generation
+
+There are some code generations involved in building RustPython:
+
+- some part of the AST code is generated from `vm/src/stdlib/ast/gen.rs` to `compiler/ast/src/ast_gen.rs`.
+- the `__doc__` attributes are generated by the 
+  [__doc__](https://github.com/RustPython/__doc__) project which is then included as the `rustpython-doc` crate.
+
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