[Python-Dev] Introduction (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@ZOPE.COM
23 May 2003 12:23:43 -0400

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 16:56, Jeffery Roberts wrote:

Thanks for all of your replies. The front-end rewrite sounds especially interesting. I'm going to look into that. Is the entire front end changing (ie scan/parse/ast) or just the AST structure ?

If you have any more information or directions please let me know.

The current plan is to create an AST and replace the bytecode compiler. We're leaving a rewrite of the parser for a later project. It's a fairly big project; large parts of it are done, but there is work remaining to do in nearly every part -- the concrete-to-abstract translator, error checking, compilation to byte-code.

At the moment, it's possible to start an interactive interpreter session and see what works. But it isn't possible to compile and run all of site.py and everything it imports.

Jeremy