Assembly Interpreter/Embedding C

[Remco Gerlich]

Guido van Rossum <guido at cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:
> Jeff Shipman - UC <jeff at nmt.edu> writes:
> 
> > I am building an interactive Intel Assembly interpreter using Python. I
> > am now needing to add the part where my binary code is taken, loaded
> > into memory and executed. I've heard the only way of doing this is to
> > use C.
> 
> I question what you've been told.  Python has perfectly fine built-in
> tools for reading binary data from a file, e.g. the struct module and
> the "rb" open mode.  Where is the need for using an extension?

I think the problem isn't loading it into memory (his Assembly 
Interpreter probably generates it itself), but rather actually
executing the binary code from memory.


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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.cx
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