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

logistix logistix@cathoderaymission.net
Fri, 23 May 2003 14:44:19 -0500 (CDT)

On 23 May 2003, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

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

Should patches just go to sourceforge's "parser/compiler" category, or will that create too much confusion?