On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:52:01PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 11:46 PM 7/31/2001 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Have you looked at the byte code used in SRE, Python's (mostly) Perl-compatible regex package? Worth a look!
Nope, not yet, but I will. (You folks will end up making a Python programmer out of me yet, I expect... :)
Well, at least you know it's happening... most people don't realize until it's too late :)
This and the C extension interface are the two big Python things I've got on my "must peer deeply into" list. Are there other places I should be concentrating on? (I'm poking about with the interpreter loop and associated code, but that's the sort of thing an expert with 20 minutes free will get me much farther than a week or two with the source)
What do you say I write up a longish email explaining quickly how Python objects work, and how the Python interpreter and extension code works with them ? I think it'd help with getting us talking about the same thing when we say 'interpreter' or 'type' :-) And the beauty of my being in a different timezone is that noone else is posting right now, so I can take the time without someone else doing it spread out over four posts in separate subthreads :) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!