On Jan 25, 2008 9:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:49:20 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > > > It's even > > possible to write code with Python assembly and compile the Python > > assembly into byte code. > > Really? How do you do that? > > I thought it might be compile(), but apparently not. >
There are tools for it in the undocumented compiler.pyassem module. You have to pretty much know what you're doing already to use it - I spent a fun (but unproductive) week figuring out how to use it and generated customized bytecode for certain list comps. Malformed hand-generated bytecode stuffed into code objects is one of the few ways I know of to crash the interpreter without resorting to calling C code, too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
