Bytes in the machine: inside the CPython interpreter

03:00 PM - 03:30 PM on August 16, 2014, Room 705

Allison Kaptur

Audience level:

intermediate

Category:

Core Python

Description

Byterun is a Python interpreter written in Python with Ned Batchelder. It's architected to mirror the structure of CPython (and be more readable, too)! Learn how the interpreter is constructed, how ignorant the Python compiler is, and how you use a 1,500 line switch statement every day.

Abstract

Byterun is a Python interpreter written in Python with Ned Batchelder. It's architected to mirror the structure of CPython (and be more readable, too)! Learn how the interpreter is constructed, how ignorant the Python compiler is, and how you use a 1,500 line switch statement every day.