Q: Python 2.0 preliminary features?

[Neel Krishnaswami]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>> 
>> Suggestion for an interesting project if you don't have anything else
>> to do:  A Python compiler written in Python.  For starters, it could
>> just generate Python bytecode.  But it would seem much easier to do
>> analysis of Python code if we didn't have to muck with any C code to
>> do it.
>
>2) I really don't get on with parsing & high level semantic
>analysis. I've never poured much effort into it, but I certainly
>don't have any natural flair for it. [...] But your idea is
>definitely a nice one. I think I'm more suited to backends, me.

If you don't feel like parsing (and who does, really?), you can 
use the parser module to generate ASTs to munch on. 


Neel