[Python-Dev] cpython and python debugger documentation (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 18:26:25 CEST 2014

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:01:18 +0000 Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat Jun 07 2014 at 5:55:29 PM, Le Pa <lpanl09 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in learning how the cpython interpreter is designed > > and implemented, > > and also how the python debugger works internally. My ultimate > > purpose is to > > modify > > them for my distributed computing needs. Are there any > > documentations on these please? I have done some goggling but > > failed to find anything useful. > > > > Thanks you very much for your help! > > > > The only documentation we have is (roughly) how the parser and > compiler work, not the interpreter. As for pdb, it's written in > Python so you can look at the source to see how that works without > much issue. But doing attentive googling will turn out a lot of 3rd-party blog posts which discuss various implementation aspects of CPython (and even alternative implementations). Some random links: http://tech.blog.aknin.name/category/my-projects/pythons-innards/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/09/18/python-internals-symbol-tables-part-1/

FWIW I have a bunch of those, and the symbol table one is probably not the best for beginners. The whole category is here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/python/python-internals/

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