A Python bytecode assember?
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Mon Dec 3 05:52:18 EST 2001
Daniel Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm planning to do a small project with Python's bytecode, and I'd
> like to know if anyone's written a bytecode assember for it?
I think my crapy one in bytecodehacks is the only one.
> I've taken a look at Michael Hudson's 'bytecodehacks' package at:
>
> http://bytecodehacks.sourceforge.net/
>
> but the code looks like it hasn't been touched since March 2000.
That's about right.
> Can anyone talk about their experiences with bytecodehacks?
What do you want to know? :)
> I need a bytecode assember that supports jumps, so if someone's
> hacked up bytecodehacks to support this, I'll be a very happy
> person.
bytecodehacks might be a reasonable start for something like this, but
you'd probably want to do work to support newer Pythons. I'm unlikely
to get round to this.
Jeremy Hylton's compiler package may be a better bet.
Cheers,
M.
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