[Tutor] assembly language and boot loader

Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 13:59:47 CEST 2012


On 23 September 2012 05:46, Fit Wii <wii_fit at ymail.com> wrote:

> Is there any IDE or Python interpreter that can show the assembly language
> generated by each line of python code?  Is there any popular boot loader
> written in Python (plus some assembly code)?
>

Python doesn't generate assembly language code. It does, however, compile
python code to bytecode which is like assembly for the Python interpreter
rather than for the CPU. Have a look at the dis module:
http://docs.python.org/library/dis.html

Oscar
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