compiler with python

[Alf P. Steinbach]

Since Mohamed is talking about compilation I think it's more likely he's talking 
about an intermediate program represention based on quad tuples like

   (OP, DESTINATION, ARG1, ARG2)

Cheers,

- Alf


* Steven Howe:
> Is it possible he's talking about a 'quad core'? as in a CPU? In that 
> case I think he wants
> to optimize a python program for a multiprocessor core with four 
> processors.
> 
> sph
> 
> 
> On 03/06/2010 07:56 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
>> mohamed issolah wrote:
>>>
>>> 2010/3/6 Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>
>>>
>>>> mohamed issolah wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I construct a compiler with python just for informatiom ., 
>>>>> I have
>>>>> habit to construct it with C language,
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for my english ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You need to tell us what you're really trying to do, what tools you're
>>>> willing to use, and probably why you want it.  And if you're not 
>>>> sure about
>>>> your English, keep the sentence structure straightforward.
>>>>
>>>> Let me make a couple of wild guesses:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> You want to design and build a compiler that takes xml information 
>>>> as its
>>>> source code, and compiles those xml files into Intel x86 machine 
>>>> code.  The
>>>> compiler and the resulting executable needs to run on an x86 Linux 
>>>> machine.
>>>>  Your previous experience was in doing this sort of thing in C, but 
>>>> you want
>>>> to try it with Python instead.  You want to do it without using the 
>>>> lxml
>>>> libraries.
>>>>
>>>> You want to build a python compiler, that takes python source code and
>>>> produces Java byte code files.  You'd like to do this in C, but 
>>>> don't want
>>>> to use any of the available existing CPython or Jython source code.  
>>>> Your
>>>> goal is not to make a commercially viable product, but to learn as 
>>>> much as
>>>> possible in the process.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DaveA
>>>>
>>>
>>> hey,
>>>
>>> I want to create a compiler which transform a code like pascal code 
>>> (that
>>> what I do in C) to "quad"
>>> In C, I use BISON and FLEX tools.
>>>
>>>
>> I've forwarded your message to the list, and fixed your top-posting by 
>> moving your response to the bottom.  I don't have a clue what "quad" 
>> is, unless it's a synonym for Forth.
>>
>> You haven't specified the OS you'll be using to run the compiler, nor 
>> the one you're targeting, so some of these choices may not be useful.  
>> For example, the first one is Linux only.
>>
>> http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pybison/
>>     PyBison - Python binding for Bison/Flex
>>
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/yeanpypa/
>> http://www.slash-me.net/dev/snippets/yeanpypa/documentation.html
>>
>> http://www.python.org/community/sigs/retired/parser-sig/towards-standard/
>>
>> Or you could go here, which has links to (most of) these and others.
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/LanguageParsing
>>
>> DaveA