Add a new ast_from_string method to AstroidManager

Close #725

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/astroid/manager.py b/astroid/manager.py
index 5e25e6e2..4e1452ef 100644
--- a/astroid/manager.py
+++ b/astroid/manager.py
@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ class AstroidManager:
             "Unable to build an AST for {path}.", path=filepath
         )
 
+    def ast_from_string(self, data, modname="", filepath=None):
+        """ Given some source code as a string, return its corresponding astroid object"""
+        # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel; circular import
+        from astroid.builder import AstroidBuilder
+
+        return AstroidBuilder(self).string_build(data, modname, filepath)
+
     def _build_stub_module(self, modname):
         # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel; circular import
         from astroid.builder import AstroidBuilder