Re: Translators/parsing Python

[Lalo Martins <lalo at webcom dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:06:43AM -0500, dj trombley wrote:
> 
> This was my feeling as well.  Compiled Python byte-code executes as a
> neat, easy to implement stack language.  You'll want to look at the
> marshalling facility for python.  (python/marshall.c)  A .pyc is just a
> marshalled code object.  I've started porting it to Guile, but since
> this is the first bit of Scheme I've ever coded, I'm not sure I'm doing
> it properly, or in an idiosyncratic way.  This is compounded by the fact
> that there is almost no documentation available.  What has me stumped is
> how to represent python dictionaries; one could of course simply port
> the python dictionary from C, but it seems there should be some way to
> expose the namespace facility of Guile.  Since I don't understand the
> namespace facility, and since again the documentation is scant, I'd
> stuck the project in the fridge for awhile.  Also, there seems to be
> some sort of mapping-type interface in ice-9/, but again, no docs.

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