Like bytecode, the compiler's workings are not part of the language spec, and are likely to change incompatibly between versions and not work for anything besides CPython. I don't really want to go there (cool though it sounds for wannabe compiler hackers).

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 30 Jun 2014 16:51, "Andrew Barnert" <abarnert@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
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> First, two quick side notes:
>
> It might be nice if the compiler were as easy to hook as the importer. Alternatively, it might be nice if there were a way to do "inline bytecode assembly" in CPython, similar to the way you do inline assembly in many C compilers, so the answer to random's question is just "asm [('BUILD_SET', 0)]" or something similar. Either of those would make this problem trivial.

Eugene Toder & Dave Malcolm have some interesting patches on the tracker to help enhance the compiler (in particular, Dave's allowed compiler plugins to be written in Python). Neither set of patches made it to being merge ready, though, and they'll be rather stale at this point.

Cheers,
Nick.

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