[Python-Dev] Modifying Grammar/grammar and other foul acts (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Mar 6 17:56:20 CET 2010

1.) I assume the Grammar/grammar is read top to bottom. Confirm?

Confirm - but this is not surprising: any source file is typically read from top to bottom. Randoma access reading is typically done for binary files, only.

So you must be asking something else, but I can't guess what that might be.

2.) More help figuring out how to debug what python thinks it's seeing when it see "def a() {pass}". It's not getting to the ast construction stage, as near as I can tell. What additional breakpoints can I set to see where it's failing.

Enable the D() debugging in parser.c (configure with --with-pydebug, and set PYTHONDEBUG).

Regards, Martin

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