[Python-Dev] Python Core Tools

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 14:17:14 CEST 2011


On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:02 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've stumbled upon Dave Beazley's article [1] about trying ancient GIL
>> removal patch at
>> http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2011/08/inside-look-at-gil-removal-patch-of.html
>> and looking at the output of Python dis module thought that it would
>> be cool if there were tools to inspect, explain and play with Python
>> bytecode. Little visual assembler, that shows bytecode and disassembly
>> side by side and annotates the listing with useful hints (like
>> interpreter code optimization decisions). That will greatly help many
>> new people understand how Python works and explain complicated stuff
>> like GIL and stackless by copy/pasting pictures from there. PyPy has a
>> tool named 'jitviewer' [2] that may be that I am looking for, but the
>> demo is offline.
>
> I put demo back online.
>

It's just that SimpleHTTPServer doesn't quite survive slashdot effect.
Where do I fill a bug report :)

Cheers,
fijal


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