pandas does not import with cpython master

[tacaswell]

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

# Your code here
import pandas

Problem description

jupiter@21:38  ➤  ipython                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Python 3.9.0a4+ (heads/master:87ec86c425, Mar 16 2020, 11:05:13) 
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In [1]: import pandas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-38d4b0363d82> in <module>
----> 1 import pandas

~/.virtualenvs/bleeding/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py in <module>
    120 from pandas.tseries.api import infer_freq
    121 from pandas.tseries import offsets
--> 123 from pandas.core.computation.api import eval
    125 from pandas.core.reshape.api import (
    126     concat,
    127     lreshape,
   (...)
    138     qcut,
    139 )
    141 import pandas.api

~/.virtualenvs/bleeding/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/computation/api.py in <module>
      1 # flake8: noqa
----> 3 from pandas.core.computation.eval import eval

~/.virtualenvs/bleeding/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/computation/eval.py in <module>
     11 from pandas.util._validators import validate_bool_kwarg
     13 from pandas.core.computation.engines import _engines
---> 14 from pandas.core.computation.expr import Expr, _parsers
     15 from pandas.core.computation.parsing import tokenize_string
     16 from pandas.core.computation.scope import ensure_scope

~/.virtualenvs/bleeding/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/computation/expr.py in <module>
    188 _expr_nodes = _filter_nodes(ast.expr)
    189 _expr_context_nodes = _filter_nodes(ast.expr_context)
--> 190 _slice_nodes = _filter_nodes(ast.slice)
    191 _boolop_nodes = _filter_nodes(ast.boolop)
    192 _operator_nodes = _filter_nodes(ast.operator)

AttributeError: module 'ast' has no attribute 'slice'

In [2]:   

jupiter@21:41  ➤  git describe                                                                                      
v1.1.0.dev0-846-g7aa3dd274     

It looks like this is due to python/cpython#9605 / https://bugs.python.org/issue34822 and needs to be sorted for py39

[WillAyd]

Cool thanks for taking a look! Would welcome any PRs from you or the community

[tacaswell]

py39 is scheduled for October, shouldn't this be a higher priority? If Matplotlib were broken on cpython master I would definitely prioritize getting it fixed and backport it as far as I could ...

[tacaswell]

"fixed" by python/cpython#19056 / https://bugs.python.org/issue39999 but at least ast.slice is deprecated and should probably be removed from the pandas parser.

[tacaswell]

@TomAugspurger This should get the py39 label as well.

[TomAugspurger]

Thanks. The necessary work here is to update pandas to not use ast.slice?