Writing an assembler in Python

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <Xns9D28186AF890Cfdnbgui7uhu5h8hrnuio at 127.0.0.1>, Giorgos 
Tzampanakis wrote:

> I'm implementing a CPU that will run on an FPGA. I want to have a
> (dead) simple assembler that will generate the machine code for
> me.

Let me suggest an alternative approach: use Python itself as the assembler. 
Call routines in your library to output the code. That way you have a 
language more powerful than any assembler.

See <http://github.com/ldo/crosscode8> for an example.