[Python-Dev] cpython and python debugger documentation

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/9/2014 12:26 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com
> <mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hello,
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>     On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:01:18 +0000
>     Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com <mailto:bcannon at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>      > On Sat Jun 07 2014 at 5:55:29 PM, Le Pa <lpanl09 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lpanl09 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>      > > Hi,
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>      > > I am interested in learning how the cpython interpreter is designed
>      > > and implemented,
>      > > and also how the python debugger works internally. My ultimate
>      > > purpose is to
>      > > modify
>      > > them for my distributed computing needs. Are there any
>      > > documentations on these please? I have done some goggling but
>      > > failed to find anything useful.
>      > >
>      > > Thanks you very much for your help!
>      > >
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>      > The only documentation we have is (roughly) how the parser and
>      > compiler work, not the interpreter. As for pdb, it's written in
>      > Python so you can look at the source to see how that works without
>      > much issue.
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>     But doing attentive googling will turn out a lot of 3rd-party blog
>     posts which discuss various implementation aspects of CPython (and even
>     alternative implementations). Some random links:
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>     http://tech.blog.aknin.name/category/my-projects/pythons-innards/
>     http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/09/18/python-internals-symbol-tables-part-1/
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> FWIW I have a bunch of those, and the symbol table one is probably not
> the best for beginners. The whole category is here:
> http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/python/python-internals/

Perhaps someone could make a wiki entry such as PythonInternals with 
links such as these.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy