March 6, 2010
11:56 a.m.
1.) I assume the Grammar/grammar is read top to bottom. Confirm?
Confirm - but this is not surprising: *any* source file is typically read from top to bottom. Randoma access reading is typically done for binary files, only. So you must be asking something else, but I can't guess what that might be.
2.) More help figuring out how to debug what python *thinks* it's seeing when it see "def a() {pass}". It's not getting to the ast construction stage, as near as I can tell. What additional breakpoints can I set to see where it's failing.
Enable the D() debugging in parser.c (configure with --with-pydebug, and set PYTHONDEBUG). Regards, Martin