[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > >>I cannot really say much about how easy it would be to just write a >>preprocessor. However, I think what you are trying to do could be done >>reasonably easy with the PyPy project: >> >>http://codespeak.net/pypy >> >>PyPy is an implementation of a Python interpreter written in Python. >>(Disclaimer: I am a PyPy developer). It has a quite flexible >>parser/bytecode compiler that could probably be tweaked to support your >>new syntax (especially if the new constructs can be mapped to standard >>python). > > > It looks like the lack of thread support means I can't just use PyPy by > itself, unfortunately.
There is thread-support (using a GIL), but it is indeed not perfect yet. This will definitively be a topic in the next months, though. > But the tokeniser, lexer, parser and AST builder > could do what I need with modification, then I could walk the generated > AST and produce standard Python code from that. How easy would it be to > separate these parts out from the rest of PyPy? Should be reasonably easy, although I am no expert in that area of PyPy. Especially since the output of the parser/compiler is regular python 2.4 bytecode. Cheers, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
