Writing an assembler in Python

[Tim Roberts]

Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>Giorgos Tzampanakis <gt67 at hw.ac.uk> writes:
>> 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. I want to use Python for that. Are there any libraries that 
>> can help me with the parsing of the assembly code?
>
>One "dead simple" option is the re module.

Yes, indeed.  I have implemented TWO different FPGA-based microassemblers
in Python using the essentially undocumented but magically delicious
re.Scanner class.  Simple and flexible.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.